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That would absolutely wreck performance, particularly startup times. You're not going to beat the performance of having 100 open tabs share the same highly optimized PGO-ed browser runtime by replacing that with 100 different runtimes. You're talking about downloading and keeping a small browser engine in memory for every page.


I've not seen PGO before, are you referring to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile-guided_optimization


Yes, Chrome just made recent changes to their PGO: https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/chrome-just-got-faster-wit...


Very true, I'm talking about an unlikely scenario where HTML/CSS/JS is an unpopular need. Yeah there's no solution that'll fit every one's need.


You can actually get a decent half-way hybrid by shipping WASM but still binding to HTML and using rich Web APIs as appropriate.




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