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WebKit is multi-process on iOS i.e. GPU tasks happen in a seperate process.

So again users will notice the benefits of multi-core performance.



I’m aware, but that’s only partially true. Browser developers have been adding concurrency for years but the way the web is designed has inherently single-threaded parts and that’s why benchmarks track single core performance. Apple’s had a lead for over a decade because of this.


Sure webkit is multi-process but how many perf critical threads do you think there are for rendering the single page that user is viewing?




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