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Re:Intel Announces 8 Core I9-9900KS: Every Core at 5Ghz, All... by Wowfunhappy on Sunday May 26, 2019 @07:01PM (#20018114)
Apple's newest CPUs have hardware explicitly for accelerating Javascript, so it's not surprising they'd pull ahead there.

And as you said, you're comparing the top-of-the-line iPhone to an "average" CPU.

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Re:Intel Announces 8 Core I9-9900KS: Every Core at 5Ghz, All... by saagarjha on Monday May 27, 2019 @12:05AM (#20019363)
> Apple's newest CPUs have hardware explicitly for accelerating Javascript

They really don't. A12 added a couple of instructions for floating point conversions, but contrary to claims making rounds on Twitter at the time, they were not even generated by WebKit when the benchmarks were run.

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