Have you noticed that Google Chrome is more agile? According to your browser Google, these are not your imagination Chrome is nearly twice as fast today compared to before the release of Chrome M112 in March of last year.

These are Google’s conclusions based on its well-known Speedometer 3.0 benchmark, but they need to be translated into users’ perception of higher speed when browsing the web. To achieve this, Google has been optimizing Chrome for months with various changes, some of which we already knew a long time ago.

Chrome is twice as fast

Google boasts about the results regarding the optimization of its web browser for Android. Especially considering the performance achieved by Chrome M112, where the changes started. Browser doubles its speed in Speedometer benchmarkin just over a year.

Speedometer benchmark is an open source test. measures the responsiveness of web applications Timing of simulated user interactions, so best results will result in a greater sense of speed during normal use of Chrome; But we must not forget that there are other variables, such as the power of the mobile phone or the latency of the network. a few. While all things are equal today compared to a year ago, your Chrome today should be significantly faster than it was back then.

Speedometer results since Chrome M112 launch

This is possible thanks to A set of optimizations in Google Chrome What Google is implementing like powerful optimization for mobile phones. Since last year, Chrome has been distributed on Google Play in two different versions: one optimized for powerful mobile phones, the other standard. This is not the only change; Google optimized Chrome in these three ways:

• Powerful Mobile Optimizations: On its most powerful mobile phones, Google distributes a compiled version of Chrome that prioritizes execution speed over smaller size. In contrast, Chrome takes up more space but runs faster. Also, 64-bit compilation is important.
• Javascript V8 Engine Improvements: Cascading improvements to the V8 Javascript engine and Blink rendering engine provide minor performance improvements that, when combined, help speed up Chrome.
• System and programming optimizations: Finally, Google has collaborated with partners like Qualcomm to optimize thread scheduling, resulting in 60% to 80% extra performance in the case of the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite.

Recovery has been progressiveThis makes it difficult for end users to notice a difference, but Google assures that it is noticeable not only in benchmark results but also on a daily basis. For example, as you can see in the previous video recorded by Google on the Pixel Tablet, opening a Google Docs document today takes half as much time as it did a year ago.

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