Apple just announced what’s new in web/safari on WWDC2020. Let’s take a look of what performance improvements are concerning web developers and wkwebview users.
- Browsing Performance
There are numbers of performance boosts in terms of browsing capabilities:
i. Clicking links to unvisited page is 13% faster
ii. Clicking link to recently visited page is 42% faster
iii. Entering URL to recently visited page is 52% faster
iv. Instant back is 34% more pages
v. Rendering first page of downloading PDF is 60 times faster.
vi. Closing unresponsive tabs is 50ms faster
2. Improvements for Developers
The improvements concerning developers are followings:
i. CPU usage in web scrolling is 3 times less
ii. IndexedDB operation is up to 10 times faster
iii. “for-of” loops are up to 5 times faster
iv. JavaScript Promises are up to 2 times faster
v. JavaScript delete operations are up to 12 times faster.
For more web/safari related information, please keep an eye of my medium https://medium.com/@rick38yip as well as my Twitter account https://twitter.com/rick3817
That’s it.
Happy coding and I wish you a great day ;)
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