Re:JavaScript engines zoo – Compare every JavaScript engine
by gurgunday on Sunday January 04, 2026 @09:54AM
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A significant part of Google’s business (Ads, YouTube, Workspace) runs inside a browser, so if the web is slow, Google loses money
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Re:JavaScript engines zoo – Compare every JavaScript engine
by johannes1234321 on Sunday January 04, 2026 @11:28AM
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What are the marginal gains in business for them from the likely improvement of the runtime? It's not like the web (or: web-technology-based apps) don't capture a lot of time already.
Re:JavaScript engines zoo – Compare every JavaScript engine
by Octoth0rpe on Sunday January 04, 2026 @11:07AM
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And the faster that a page finishes rendering on an iphone, the faster that the cpu can idle, which hugely benefits battery life. That's a pretty strong motivation on Apple's side. I don't think the proposed motivation on google's side is stronger.