Google released Chrome 91 a few days ago, but today it revealed to Chromium blog that the new edition it features the Sparkplug compiler as well as 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 fast while optimizing it (the code) for best performance. Short built-in calls, on the other hand, are a mechanism used by machine JavaScript V8 to optimize the use of generated code within computer memory. This boosts 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 key principles, according to the Chromium blog. ταχύτητα, ασφάλεια, σταθερότητα και απλότητα. Με τον νέο Sparkplug compiler και τις σύντομες ενσωματωμένες κλήσεις που επιφέρουν σημαντική αύξηση ταχύτητας στους χρόνους φόρτωσης της κάθε σελίδας, να ενισχύουν την ταχύτητα και την σταθερότητα του Chrome, πιθανότατα ο Chrome θα συνεχίσει να είναι browser που χρησιμοποιεί η πλειοψηφία.
