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This is pretty mature technology, and like most mature technologies, there aren't going to be a lot of 50% improvements any more.

Look at CPUs or the Internal Combustion Engine. After 120+ years, it still improves, but you're looking at single-digit percentage points if that.

I'm not aware of a lot of things that could magically improve browser performance, but if you do, you have a great opportunity for a unicorn startup.

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Internal combustion engines might not be the best example. They've seen REALLY impressive gains in the last couple of decades. =)

Today you can buy relatively affordable cars with 2.0 liter engines pushing 300 or more horsepower and doing so with greater fuel efficiency than cars with much more modest output from ten or twenty years ago.

(admittedly some of the gains in efficiency have been obscured by increases in vehicle weight)

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