CRAZY MOBILE PERFORMANCE
1/13/17
The smart phone has officially passed up my 7-year-old desktop PC in CPU horsepower.  On
an average of
<a href="http://browserbench.org/JetStream/">Jet Stream</a>,
<a href="https://webkit.org/perf/sunspider/sunspider.html">Sun Spider</a>,
<a href="http://krakenbenchmark.mozilla.org/">Kraken</a>, and
<a href="https://browser.primatelabs.com/">Geekbench</a>,
my iPhone 7 is 30% faster than
my Core i5-670-based PC (running Firefox or Chrome for the javascript benchmarks).  
My iPad 1, by comparison, from roughly the same vintage as my desktop PC (2010), looks
absolutely prehistoric.  It is <i>40 times</i> slower than my iPhone 7.  It is unreal how
much mobile processing power has improved since the advent of the smart phone / tablet.
Desktop CPU performance increases have been happening at a far slower pace in that same
time frame.