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spartanatreyu 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions – Chrome e...

Sometimes html pages can get pretty big, why not optimise it?

Also, speeding up html parsing means speeding up browsers, crawlers, e2e tests, visual regression tests, etc...

abirch 6 months ago [–]

A lot of html, css, and JavaScript may not be independent.

kelnos 6 months ago | [–]

Sure, but if you parse the HTMl faster, you find the <script> and <link rel="stylesheet"> tags sooner, and can kick off another network thread to start fetching those files sooner. Overall you end up with a faster page load.

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