Re:Google Chrome 4.0: Fastest OS X browser by 34 per cent
by chrischen on Saturday August 15, 2009 @12:48AM
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Ok, then understandably they shouldn't. But I wandered off and argued another point: why open source should take the best and incorporate it.
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Re:Google Chrome 4.0: Fastest OS X browser by 34 per cent
by evgen on Saturday August 15, 2009 @12:56AM
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The problem with this approach is that there are large switching costs involved (due to the previously mentioned tight coupling between javascript engine and rendering engine) and the "whose JS engine is the fastest" crown gets passed back and forth between Mountain View and Cupertino so frequently they should just plant it somewhere around southwest Los Altos and be done with it...