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Re:Tragedy of the WebKit Commons by lukeman on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @11:29PM (#5217736)
Right, the difference is Mobile Safari and home screen web apps use the Nitro engine while UIWebView still uses JavaScriptCore IIRC.
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Re:Tragedy of the WebKit Commons by bdash on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @11:32PM (#5217745)
Nitro is Apple's marketing name for JavaScriptCore, so UIWebView and Safari both make use of Nitro. The difference you're thinking of is whether a JIT compiler is used. That difference has nothing to do with the age of the version of WebKit used in UIWebView vs Safari.
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