The sad fact is that SOCs are getting better and better every day, but front-end developers manage to raise the requirement for a smooth browsing experience at a faster speed.
Its Chrome codebase. Same websites on now ancient Opera Presto (12) flew at 1/10 the resource usage (not an exaggeration, you could open 100 tabs and still fit in 1GB ram usage).
We are paying for abstraction layers added to smooth web development.
We are paying for abstraction layers added to smooth web development.