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Re:Lightpanda: The headless browser designed for AI and auto... by Tostino on Friday January 24, 2025 @12:38PM (#42815456)
You may reduce ram, but also performance. A good JIT costs ram.
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Re:Lightpanda: The headless browser designed for AI and auto... by fbouvier on Friday January 24, 2025 @12:57PM (#42815601)
Yes, that's true. It's a balance to find between RAM and speed.

I was thinking more on use cases that require to disable JIT anyway (WASM, iOS integration, security).

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Re:Lightpanda: The headless browser designed for AI and auto... by Tostino on Friday January 24, 2025 @01:02PM (#42815636)
Yeah, could be nice to allow the user to select the type of ECMAScript engine that fits their use-case / performance requirements (balancing the resources available).
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Re:Lightpanda: The headless browser designed for AI and auto... by cxr on Friday January 24, 2025 @11:30PM (#42819510)
If your target is consistent enough (perhaps even stationary), then at some point "JIT" means wasting CPU cycles.
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