Latest WebKit Build Doubles Scrolling Performance on MacBook Pro with Retina Display

[joshhedge]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6495/...erformance-on-macbook-pro-with-retina-display

Over double the website FPS performance. Hopefully Apple will implement this webkit build soon!

 

[nanolife]

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1496121/

 

[nuckinfutz]

Future Webkit doubles Retina scroll performance

Webkit update in development brings 2x performance improvement

Performance is more than doubled! Scrolling is so much smoother. I also ran tests on pages that previously worked fine (e.g. the AnandTech front page) and performance hadn't changed there. I haven't managed to figure out exactly what's changed in the codebase to improve performance so much but it's appreciable.

For those of you who are early adopters of Retina MBPs, there looks to be some hope that we might see software solutions to improving UI performance. The real question is when we'll see these types of improvements rolled into OS X.

Great news. I'm looking at moving from a 13" Air to the Haswell based Retina 13" next year. I'm not afraid of any lag but all things being considered I'd prefer not to have any lag.