[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 239934] [GTK] Painfully slow browsing experience

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239934

--- Comment #6 from kdwkleung at protonmail.com ---
Well, if Firefox is same or worse I’m afraid there’s not much to be done… we mostly use Firefox as a benchmark for performance improvements. 

The fact is that the modern web is very complex, and therefore web browsers need to be equally complex. The WebKit source, for example, is nearly 10GB. If you look at wpt.fyi, a cross-browser effort to track web compatibility, you can see there are more than 1.8 million tests that form ‘full conformance’ to the web standards. WebKitGTK currently passes more than 1.74 million of them (Firefox is nearly 1.74 million). 

Besides, you can use —makearg=“-jx” to control how many build jobs to run in parallel, where x is an integer (lower uses less RAM but takes longer). For reference, on my 16GB RAM 9th-gen i7-9700 (8-core) machine, I use -j5 so that it doesn’t run out of memory.

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