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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by kevingadd on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:26PM (#26964279)
Silk solves a different set of problems. Silk offloads expensive things like page layout or rasterization to the server, and for a static page you could theoretically cache those too.

Mighty is streaming a browser instance, wholesale, as a video stream. It's very very different both in philosophy and actual implementation.

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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by somethoughts on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:18PM (#26971807)
Perhaps I should have added some qualifiers - it shares "at a high, superficial level" a philosophy with the Amazon Silk Browser in trying to cloud accelerate the browsing experience.

Once one scratches into the technical details, the similarities end. Interesting, as you describe it, at a very high level, it does sound like Google Stadia or Nvidia GeForce Now but applied to web browsing.

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