Arm Has Been Working To Boost The Chrome/Chromium Browser Performance

[mrugiero]

If upstreamed, this should help the whole linux ecosystem. Great to see!

And many more, open source or otherwise! It'd be really great, and from the slides it seems some of the changes are either upstream or being pushed.

[treba]

...Zlib ... libjpeg-turbo...Harfbuzz

If upstreamed, this should help the whole linux ecosystem. Great to see!

[ms178]

I hope their optimized Zlib implementation gets used more widely as Zlib's upstream development is very slow and didn't show a lot of interest in these performance optimizations to begin with. There is also a whole project (zlib-ng) dedicated to replace it.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Arm Has Been Working To Boost The Chrome/Chromium Browser Performance

Arm engineers have been working to speed-up the open-source Chromium web browser on 64-bit ARM (AArch64) and ultimately to flow back into Google's Chrome releases. Their focus has been around Windows-on-Arm with the growing number of Windows Arm laptops coming to market, but the Chromium optimizations also benefit the browser on Linux too...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arm-Faster-Chromium