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Re:Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project by beshrkayali on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @05:22PM (#5489205)
I agree, that would suck. Specially if -for some reason- we start seeing differences in terms of rendering speed/js engine/or other techs between the android version and the iOS version.
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Re:Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project by ionforce on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @05:46PM (#5489383)
There already are speed differences in iOS alone. The native Safari has a faster JavaScript engine than the sandboxed Safari instances that iOS apps use.

Or something like that. Something about security concerns.

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Re:Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project by svachalek on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @08:54PM (#5490299)
It's the JIT for JavaScript that's disabled. I've never seen an official statement on it but I've read that it's that the security model in iOS does not allow compiling code and then executing it, but Mobile Safari gets a unique bypass for this security. Other apps which merely embed a UIWebView are stuck with interpreted JavaScript.
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Re:Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project by basch on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @11:01PM (#5490719)
unless you have nitrous installed. http://lifehacker.com/5930405/nitrous-speeds-up-google-chrom...
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Re:Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project by gsnedders on Thursday April 04, 2013 @06:28AM (#5491843)
Any user process cannot allocate executable memory, hence you cannot have any JIT.
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Re:Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project by aniket_ray on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @05:41PM (#5489346)
The Android and iOS versions have always been different. Apple does not approve any browser apps that do not use the default UIWebView.

It was this reason that Adobe could never launch a flash enabled browser on iOS.

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Re:Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project by vladikoff on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @05:37PM (#5489319)
This is already true today.
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Re:Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project by beshrkayali on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @06:20PM (#5489642)
Well, then it's already sucky :) I never tried/used the android version.
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