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Seriously, for a device so thin in features and actual stuff to do, performance is disappointing.

Really? Have you checked well written apps and what they can do?

The Google Chrome browser scrolling is horrific at times with a HUGE delay.

How is that an iOS's "performance problem"? Use Safari. It's not like iOS doesn't offer the best scrolling experience compared to Android/Chrome.

It's iOS' performance problem because Chrome is forced to use a UIWebView instead of the Nitro engine: https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/ios/overview.

It would be wonderful if Apple virtualized the UIWebView process so it could safely use nitro. Not only would it help Chrome (not that I bet Apple cares :), but also a huge number of applications. And, if apps were fully virtualized, it could possibly open up new, interesting possibilities that have been heretofore deemed unsafe.

It does indeed help a large number of apps (though more and more are going full native since the Facebook app drama).

Jailbreakers have had this for a while now with Nitrous, a tweak which unlocks the Nitro engine to all apps.

But virtualized would be slower for everybody, right?

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