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Probably not worth it to add dedicated cores for web processing, but iPhone already takes advantage of special ARM instructions for faster JavaScript execution [0]. That will almost certain be used on the new ARM Macs.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18163433

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That is not true. As it turns out, Safari didn't use that instruction [1] at the time and even when it did. 99% of those performance gain in Speedometer had nothing to do what that instruction .

[1] https://twitter.com/saambarati/status/1049202132522479616?s=...

Ah, thanks for the correction. I had not seen the follow up since that was originally posted.

I guess not really your fault. We have KOLs that put out information on their site and channels ( in this case DaringFireball and Twitter ) and they, for whatever reason never really correct themselves. ( Even when they knew they were wrong )

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