Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance
by jacquesm on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @08:44AM
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The web wasn't 'slow and sucky' before chrome appeared.
Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance
by IvyMike on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @01:30PM
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Christ: my slightly hyperbolic rhetoric aside do you really disagree with anything in the logic chain that a faster web = a more usable web = a more used web = a larger audience = better for google?
Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance
by PavlovsCat on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @11:55AM
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It wasn't even even slow and sucky before Firefox appeared; Opera was pretty nice even in 2000 :)
My argument is that nobody would have put that data online in a slow and sucky web. If you think Google wants full control over the audience, surely they also want a large audience.
(Note that I do not think that Google is evil. But if they were, I don't think they would need chrome to get most of that information anyways, given all the other ways they are collecting data. Sure, there are some corner cases they would miss but I don't think the incremental coverage would be worth the effort.)