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There's a helpful bit of writing about garbage collection on http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow...

It boils down to there being a big performance penalty on garbage collection in memory-constrained environments.

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Wow, that's a great article. I'm currently using mobile web stuff (Ionic, Angular, PhoneGap) to prototype some possible mobile apps. It's convenient, but I've been worrying about the long-range performance issues. This gives me a much more detailed way to think about it. That Apple got rid of garbage collection is especially telling.

Thanks! The linked article is absolutely a must-read for discussing the real limitations.

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