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		stefan_ on Jan 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the Ap... There is (was?) no mechanism for JIT, so even if there was a working local build, it wouldn't be a competitive browser engine.

johncolanduoni on Jan 26, 2024 [–]

Even the WebKit wrapper browsers (including Chrome and Firefox) didn’t have access to JIT until iOS 8 when WKWebView was introduced. UIWebView is in-process and not allowed to use JIT.

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