“why mobile web apps are slow”

Hi,

Some of you may have seen this long but well-documented article from
Drew Crawford on the obstacles to run resources-intensive Web apps on
mobile (mostly focusing on JavaScript):
http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/

It highlights in particular:
* the no-longer-significantly-decreasing tax of interpreted languages
* the tax of garbage collectors on memory-constrained devices
and that these taxes are unlikely to be lifted by hardware upgrades in
the short term.

I'd be interested in feedback on that analysis, and possible ways to
improve the situation over time should it be deemed to be correct.

Dom

Received on Friday, 12 July 2013 12:04:31 UTC