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Firefox Focus – a free, fast and easy to use priva...
Is either able to use JIT for JavaScript engine or is it only enabled for Apple's "blessed-process" iOS Safari?
st3fan
on Nov 17, 2016
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Only the WKWebView gets fast JavaScript. Any app that uses it will inherit that functionality.
For example, Firefox for iOS ranks
exactly the same
as Safari in speed benchmarks.
lilyball
on Nov 17, 2016
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WKWebView executes out-of-process just like Safari and so it performs just as well. In fact, that's the whole reason that WKWebView exists (instead of just using UIWebView).
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