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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by striking on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:30PM (#10193759)
Right, it's competitive... But being competitive and "most advanced", to me, are two different things. Not knocking Safari's performance, the battery life you get from it kicks butt. Still, different.

(Also, wow. Comex replied to me. Very cool.)

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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by comex on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:45PM (#10193942)
I mean, there's definitely a good argument that V8 is most advanced, but, for example, JSC is the only one that has the LLVM 'fourth tier', and it shows on asm.js benchmarks, where it mostly beats V8 (loses to Firefox, but that has asm.js-specific code while the others don't):

http://arewefastyet.com/#machine=29&view=breakdown&suite=asm...

So I think the question of "most advanced" is basically subjective.

Don't get me wrong! I would strongly prefer if iOS allowed any JIT to be used. I just think calling the one that can be used "most advanced" is not wrong per se.

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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by striking on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:49PM (#10193997)
Well said. Thanks for the insight.
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