The State of JavaScript on Android in 2015 is... poor

I’ve ended up reading this thread before while wondering why my phone (Galaxy s4) sometimes takes a while to browse on Discourse. I’ve tried some different browsers and that has produced good results (Puffin specifically being surprisingly fast compared to the default browser I had been using).

I’m upgrading to a new phone soon and was poking through benchmarks to see which ones might perform best with Discourse. It’s not a particularly big deal, but it’s the most important QoL feature for me. I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask (I couldn’t find any more relevant threads), but given the improvements made to Discourse on this front I wanted to ask if anyone had any new data on which phones generally would perform best when browsing Discourse? What phone specifications tend to make browsing a better experience?

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