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It’s the speed of the JavaScript compiler, on those old browsers they were expected to handle a few kilobytes max of event listeners. The chrome vs Firefox browser wars sped up JavaScript compilation by 10x at least


Yes I was alive for that. Just said that because that Mac could take up to 1.5GB of RAM




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