A Clean Start for the Web

Re:A Clean Start for the Web by bgirard on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:49AM (#24257834)

That would absolutely wreck performance, particularly startup times. You're not going to beat the performance of having 100 open tabs share the same highly optimized PGO-ed browser runtime by replacing that with 100 different runtimes. You're talking about downloading and keeping a small browser engine in memory for every page.

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Re:A Clean Start for the Web by dmux on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:34PM (#24263088)

I've not seen PGO before, are you referring to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile-guided_optimization

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Re:A Clean Start for the Web by bgirard on Saturday August 29, 2020 @03:17AM (#24314329)

Yes, Chrome just made recent changes to their PGO: https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/chrome-just-got-faster-wit...

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Re:A Clean Start for the Web by slmjkdbtl on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @08:20PM (#24288847)

Very true, I'm talking about an unlikely scenario where HTML/CSS/JS is an unpopular need. Yeah there's no solution that'll fit every one's need.

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Re:A Clean Start for the Web by bgirard on Saturday August 29, 2020 @03:20AM (#24314342)

You can actually get a decent half-way hybrid by shipping WASM but still binding to HTML and using rich Web APIs as appropriate.

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