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by kibwen 3357 days ago
It's true that the DOM is a bottleneck on many apps (I don't think anybody is disputing that), but "a little faster" undersells what Servo is trying to achieve: order-of-magnitude speedups on GPU-parallelizable tasks, and at least factor-of-two speedups on CPU-parallelizable tasks, all while providing stronger guarantees WRT user security than any contemporary browser.