Google released Chrome 91 a few days ago, but today it revealed on the Chromium blog that the new version features the Sparkplug compiler and short builtin calls, which makes the browser 23% faster than before.
With a huge number of people using Google Chrome, combined with speed improvements, the company estimates it will save 17 years of CPU time with these latest changes.
Sparkplug is a new JavaScript compiler that manages to run code very quickly, while optimizing it for better performance. Short embedded calls, on the other hand, are a mechanism used by the JavaScript V8 engine to optimize the use of generated code within a computer's memory. This enhances performance by avoiding indirect jumps when calling functions, something that will obviously be more useful on Apple M1 chips.
Google Chrome is based on four basic principles, according to the Chromium blog. speed, safety, stability and simplicity. With the new Sparkplug compiler and short built-in calls that bring a significant increase in speed to each page load time, enhancing the speed and stability of Chrome, most likely Chrome will continue to be the browser used by the majority.
George is still wondering what he is doing here….
