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Re:Yesterday I Wrote My First Firefox OS App by giardini on Monday August 12, 2013 @02:12PM (#6200701)
"Since then, JS has gotten about a billion times faster across pretty much all browsers."

1 billion = 10^9. If what you say is true, then the average length of JS code must have increased about 10^10, because despite increased bandwidth, most sites seem to run slower than they did 6 years ago. That is some pretty prodigious coding(8-))

Or maybe it's write delay caused by the NSA.

Re:Yesterday I Wrote My First Firefox OS App by zanny on Monday August 12, 2013 @03:59PM (#6201347)
You also have to consider a dramatic increase in what JS does in addition to there being 10^10 more JS in the first place. You didn't really see JS libraries being used on every site (especially staples like jquery and angular, which combined add a few megs to pageloads). The use cases of JS have shifted - many sites don't even render anything with JS turned off anymore.
Re:Yesterday I Wrote My First Firefox OS App by hexasquid on Monday August 12, 2013 @06:19PM (#6202553)
In theory that jquery and that angular file should be sourced