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A Study of High Performance WebKit Mobile Web Browser  

Kim, Cheong-Ghil (남서울대학교 컴퓨터학과)
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Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications / v.7, no.1, 2012 , pp. 48-52 More about this Journal
Abstract
As the growing popularity of smartphones, mobile web browsing has become one of the most important and popular applications in mobile devices. Furthermore, it is clear that the demand for PC-like full browser performance on mobile devices is increasing greatly. WebKit is an open source web browser engine adopted by Google Android. This paper proposed a technique of increasing the performance of WebKit by paralleling its libraries. This method was applied to JPEG library and the performance evaluation was conducted in PC environment. The results was used to estimate the performance prediction on multi-core mobile embedded architecture and to show the feasibility of the proposed method to estimate the performance gain on heterogeneous multi-core embedded architecture.
Keywords
web browser; parallel programming; heterogeneous computing; Android; WebKit;
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