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Web worker JS is too slow as compared to chrome 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237789
Summary Web worker JS is too slow as compared to chrome
tasnim
Reported 2022-03-11 10:50:04 PST
I am building a web app that relies on wasm + pthread (i.e. web workers) and noticed that it was super slow in safari as compared to chrome (nearly 10x slower). The issue could have been in wasm or web-worker but it seems its just the web worker being too slow in safari. I ran following simple loop iterations in 3 browsers: safari, mozilla (98.0 (64-bit)) & chrome (99.0.4844.51, x86_64) and have the following results - 10^8 loop iteration: chrome: ~100ms safari: ~1.9 seconds firefox: ~107 ms 10^9 loop iterations: chrome: ~710ms safari: ~17.99 seconds firefox: ~969 ms Repro steps: Code: https://jsfiddle.net/9gfjo207/7/ - try to save the html file (call it: index.html) and JS (as worker.js) in one directory and run a python sever from terminal on the same directory (python3 -m http.server) and type in browser: localhost:8000/index.html. Keep the developer console opened and type: startWorker() and notice the above results in different browsers.
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Comment 1 2022-03-11 16:44:29 PST
<rdar://problem/90187513>
tasnim
Comment 2 2022-03-12 22:25:53 PST
I did a bit more testing. I get different results each time but chrome & safari's time seem similar (at some times safari is even faster than chrome) on my macOS. I don't remember why safari was performing slower before when I initially filed this bug. Please consider this bug as obsolete but would be helpful if anyone can point me to links related to any benchmark done on this. Thanks!
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