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Lack of sales/interest due to slow hardware?Lack of sales/interest due to slow hardware?Posted Aug 20, 2011 3:30 UTC (Sat) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)In reply to: Lack of sales/interest due to slow hardware? by cmccabe Parent article: HP dropping webOS devices
> WebOS ran slow and power-hungry due to being based around Javascript, Be that as it may, it still doesn't explain the speed difference of WebOS on the two different hardware platforms. Unless the iPhone2 has some JS speed booster/optimizer and WebOS runs on top of this interpreter, I still don't see how "twice as fast" could be realized in software alone. I do agree that JS seems like a poor choice on which to base an entire OS.
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Lack of sales/interest due to slow hardware? Posted Aug 20, 2011 15:53 UTC (Sat) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]
There is nothing to really explain, because we don't know what the speed difference was or how it was measured.
For example, WebOS uses the V8 Javascript engine, whereas iOS uses Nitro. As far as I know, V8 is still the faster of the two. So I'm sure you could come up with some benchmark like loading a complicated web page where webOS wins.
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