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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by guelo on Thursday May 19, 2016 @12:00AM (#11727861)
Websockets cannot be as efficient as native network management code.
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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by jkarneges on Thursday May 19, 2016 @01:00AM (#11728092)
What does this even mean? WebSockets can be used natively. In fact the Firebase client uses WebSockets, same as Horizon.
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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by guelo on Thursday May 19, 2016 @01:55AM (#11728301)
Sorry I was confused about terms, what I was thinking of was Javascript vs native. Native code can do more than a browser sandboxed client can.
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