http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/interview-google-chrome-s-lars-bak-548115

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In the past few months, the importance of browsers coping with JavaScript and the web apps that are built on it have become increasingly obvious, and its something that Bak has been delighted to see.

"It's fantastic," he [software engineer Lars Bak] tells TechRadar. "This is exactly why we started two-and-a-half years ago.

"When we started we were facing no competition; all browsers had the same speed in terms of JavaScript and it turned out to be bit of a bottle neck for web applications.

"So that's exactly the reason we started to try to get more speed in JavaScript and enable bigger JavaScript web applications.
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