Why Mobile Web Is Slow?

Over the weekend quite a few people wrote to me about a well researched article written by Drew Crawford where he gives some insights about why the mobile web/JavaScript is slow and will not (for the foreseeable future) compete with native code. My opinion of the article is mixed, it is well written and very well researched, I also agree with a few of the points but I think that despite getting some of the conclusions wrong I think his reasoning is inaccurate.

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