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Re: Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHTML 17

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Post by ancarda »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #2

I've never seen a person using Edge. Does anyone here use it? Do you work at Microsoft or have a big technical investment in their technology? Do you find the lack of cross-platform support annoying, or do you primarily use a single OS? These changes all look like they apply to ChakraCore, which is open source and available outside of Windows. I'd be curious to hear what kinds of use-cases people have for using Node…

I use Linux so I can't use Edge, and even if it were available, I'd probably carry on using Firefox. I have a dedicated Windows gaming PC, but on that I probably use Steam Browser more than anything.

My partner, however, does uses Edge as following a clean reinstall of Windows 10, we found it was honestly ... good enough. We didn't need to install another browser.

Re: Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHTML 17

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Post by magnat »

> our early experiments show an average memory savings of 7% from this and a few other memory improvements

This seems little. I wonder if they knew it beforehand and decided it is worth the effort, or overestimated potential memory savings.

> Chakra was able to reduce RegExp bytecode memory in some popular extensions in this release by up to 10%

Same as above. My current total size of ad filter rules is less than 1MB. Even if all of them were RegExps and bytecode representation was few times larger than raw rules, that would be quite insignificant gain.

Re: Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHTML 17

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Post by dagw »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #2

I've never seen a person using Edge. Does anyone here use it? Do you work at Microsoft or have a big technical investment in their technology? Do you find the lack of cross-platform support annoying, or do you primarily use a single OS? These changes all look like they apply to ChakraCore, which is open source and available outside of Windows. I'd be curious to hear what kinds of use-cases people have for using Node…

I've been using it, on and off, for a bit over year as an experiment more than anything else.

And honestly it's a perfectly fine browser. Admittedly not better than Chrome (my other 'main' browser) in any way I care about, but also not worse.

Re: Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHTML 17

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Post by Drakim »

magnat wrote: post #12

> our early experiments show an average memory savings of 7% from this and a few other memory improvements This seems little. I wonder if they knew it beforehand and decided it is worth the effort, or overestimated potential memory savings. > Chakra was able to reduce RegExp bytecode memory in some popular extensions in this release by up to 10% Same as above. My current total size of ad filter rules is less than 1MB…

Well, it's the average. I assume the savings are a lot higher for heavy web apps with more JS

Re: Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHTML 17

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Post by ilarum »

sgift wrote: post #7
TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #2

I've never seen a person using Edge. Does anyone here use it? Do you work at Microsoft or have a big technical investment in their technology? Do you find the lack of cross-platform support annoying, or do you primarily use a single OS? These changes all look like they apply to ChakraCore, which is open source and available outside of Windows. I'd be curious to hear what kinds of use-cases people have for using Node…

I use it for Netflix, because for a while I had the problem that in FF/Chrome it would just hang on loading a video or stop in the middle and not being able to restart. That's the only use I have for it so far.

Yet another Edge use-case - the last time I checked, only Edge supports Netflix 4K on Windows.

Re: Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHTML 17

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Post by christogreeff »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #2

I've never seen a person using Edge. Does anyone here use it? Do you work at Microsoft or have a big technical investment in their technology? Do you find the lack of cross-platform support annoying, or do you primarily use a single OS? These changes all look like they apply to ChakraCore, which is open source and available outside of Windows. I'd be curious to hear what kinds of use-cases people have for using Node…

I always have Chrome open, but Edge is still set as my default browser to open links from applications. It opens quickly and it works perfectly fine. Have never had issues with Edge. If I could use some of the same Chrome extensions on Edge, I'd probably even use it most of the time.

Re: Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHTML 17

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Post by hmexx »

ilarum wrote: post #15
sgift wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use it for Netflix, because for a while I had the problem that in FF/Chrome it would just hang on loading a video or stop in the middle and not being able to restart. That's the only use I have for it so far.

Yet another Edge use-case - the last time I checked, only Edge supports Netflix 4K on Windows.

pun intended?

Re: Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHTML 17

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Post by billysielu »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #2

I've never seen a person using Edge. Does anyone here use it? Do you work at Microsoft or have a big technical investment in their technology? Do you find the lack of cross-platform support annoying, or do you primarily use a single OS? These changes all look like they apply to ChakraCore, which is open source and available outside of Windows. I'd be curious to hear what kinds of use-cases people have for using Node…

I've never considered Edge because it didn't have extensions at launch. The maximum time I could tolerate a browser without an ad blocker was just long enough to download another browser.

It actually looks like there are extensions now, but I bet most people don't know that, I didn't.

Re: Improved JavaScript and WebAssembly performance in EdgeHTML 17

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Post by MaxBarraclough »

NiveaGeForce wrote: post #8
TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #2

I've never seen a person using Edge. Does anyone here use it? Do you work at Microsoft or have a big technical investment in their technology? Do you find the lack of cross-platform support annoying, or do you primarily use a single OS? These changes all look like they apply to ChakraCore, which is open source and available outside of Windows. I'd be curious to hear what kinds of use-cases people have for using Node…

Edge is the most resource efficient and respects modern Windows conventions, therefore it has the best, pen, touchscreen, tablet (including share button and stuff) and precision trackpad support. And since it's WinRT/UWP, it can suspends its tab processes, and also itself when minimized or automatically during tablet mode in the background, and during fullscreen it also automatically unhides the taskbar when you hove…

> Edge is on both iOS

Well, not really. It exists on iOS the same way Chrome and Firefox exist on iOS: as frontends for iOS's WebKit engine.

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