New low level JavaScript interpreter to boost WebKit performance more than 200%

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7 points·fuzzythinker··3 comments

I really can't stand AppleInsider. Their articles are constantly written this way. What does Oracle's patent suit against Android or the Dart VM have to do at all with Apple's improvements to their JavaScript engine?

>Google's efforts to leverage Chrome to push its own preferred technologies rather than open standards has also occured with its own WebM video codec (as opposed to H.264) and a prioritization of Adobe's Flash (over HTML5) for delivering video and interactivity, particularly as a differentiating feature of its Android mobile platform.

I seriously don't even know what to say to any of that, especially the Flash bit. I can't tell if I should be attributing this to malice or stupidity. I think I've flagged two things ever, and this will be the third.

Here's the original bug/enhancement report with actual information and not some ignorant fanboyisms: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108309

That was my first thought, a perfectly decent piece of news turned into a fanboi rant

('cos of course we all know Apple follows existing standards rather than making their own up)

Actually, the articles by this one particular author are noticeably worse than others on the site.

Even aside from the slant, the headline trumpets over 200%, while a x2.5 speedup is actually a 150% improvement. And that is only the interpreter part. The article itself mentions that overall speedup is only "double digit" i.e. roughly 10-15%.

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