I mean, a 20% increase in the performance is no trivial matter, surely an explanation is due. There is no blog article to highlight what kind of magic was done in the development process to achieve this. Now that you have some context about the topic, you may understand why I find the lack of information in today's Tweet from Google to be surprising. Chrome 99 was 43% faster on macOS than the first version for Apple Silicon, which was released in 2020. Remarkably, the more impressive detail was that Chrome's performance had improved greatly in a span of less than 2 years. It also claimed that Chrome 99 was 15% faster than Apple's Safari browser, at least in benchmarks. Google lavished praise on Apple Silicon, the M1 processor, as a game changer and that its performance was drastically better compared to Macs with Intel CPUs. The biggest difference, however, was not just in terms of software improvements, but the hardware used in Mac computers. ThinLTO (Link Time Optimization) also played a key role in Chrome getting a boost to its performance. On the bright side, the implementation of the V8 Sparkplug JavaScript compiler along with short built-in calls, helped Chrome reduce the overhead, which resulted in better performance memory-wise. Ever since it debuted in 2014, it has been a prime marketing tool for browser makers to boast how good their application is.Ĭoming to back to Google's article, it mentioned the technical details about how it optimized Chrome's performance over the years, and the challenges it faced, such as the Spectre CPU exploit for which it had to take a performance dip to improve the security of user data. In case you didn't know, Speedometer 2.0 is a browser benchmark test developed by Apple.
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