As the Principal Engineer for QuIC’s Web Technology team, one of the most common questions I’m faced with is, “Why is QuIC expending energy to help optimize Webkit?” Perhaps some people feel that actively participating in open source runs contrary to traditional business models. Or, some may even wonder why QuIC doesn’t just sit back and leverage the work of other corporations and the rest of the WebKit community.
Why is Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Investing in WebKit?
Benchmarking Mobile Browsers-90% Half Mental
Yogi Berra once opined “Baseball is 90% mental – the other half is physical.” Yogi missed a starring role in performance profiling! Batting average is a good benchmark of performance for a baseball player, but it may be more useful to know how well he bats in night games with runners in scoring position playing on artificial turf while facing a left handed pitcher from Mississippi.
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