WebAssembly: Mozilla Won

Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won by fixermark on Thursday June 01, 2017 @02:08PM (#14462837)

It may not be sufficient to just switch to FF. I think it likely that what FF needs is people putting in the grunt work of continuing to optimize the hell out of it so that it's performance-competitive with Chrome.

Users will choose the fastest browser that works, in general.

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Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won by nathancahill on Thursday June 01, 2017 @02:25PM (#14462981)

Have you tried it recently? Mozilla has done exactly that. The latest version is faster than Chrome in some benchmarks.

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Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won by fixermark on Thursday June 01, 2017 @04:06PM (#14464018)

I'm more interested in the elusive-but-oh-so-important "Feels faster" metric, which is harder to capture in benchmarks.

To my taste, Chrome juuuust edges out at a cursory glance, but barely (though at this point, it's a little sticky for me because it has my Google account credentials, my bookmarks backed up to the cloud, etc., etc.). But it's definitely looking better than it did when last I tried that comparison.

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