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

Impressively, I just tested @zogstrip’s Nexus 6p on emberperf.eviltrout.com, render complex list, 2.11 and I got ~150ms. That’s quite good.

Chrome 55 212 ms
Chrome 58 175 ms
Chrome 61 150ms

That puts it in iPhone 6 territory, which is about where it should be based on the CPU, and I would rate it as solidly “good”. The Nexus 6p is not exactly a new device… we’ll see where Snapdragon 845 takes us. Current rumors say:

The Snapdragon 845 scores 2600+ in GeekBench 4, for single core results.

That’s about 10% faster than iPhone 6s.

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