• Caveman@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It’s mostly because of memory cache misses. JS creates a ton of closures and has a lot of context switching. JS engines are basically a modern day miracle for how fast they are but somehow webapps are still sluggish.

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      Memory cache hits are destroying performance? Is this profiled or just guesswork? I don’t understand how that’s tied to perceived performance degradation specific to web-based toolkits like Blink and Webkit