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illamint on July 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: WebKit sorts JS arrays using Selection Sort

I think they're both using Nitro (depending on who you ask: http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2012/06/nitro-javascriptcore-and-ji...), but UIWebViews don't have JIT compilation turned on (no executable memory pages allowed in iOS apps), so they're slower.

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