Thanks to Microsoft, Chrome is now 15 percent faster on Windows
In a bid to make its browser faster than ever, Google has started using Microsoft’s Profile Guided Optimization (PGO). Introduced in Chrome 53, this technology can help optimize high-use functions in the browser.
The nightly Chrome builds track how often functions are used, and these functions are then optimized by PGO, sometimes increasing their binary size. In addition, PGO optimizes the memory location of the browser code, keeping rarely and frequently used functions away from each other.
PGO was first introduced into the 64-bit build of Chrome in version 53. It has since been added to the 32-bit build in Chrome 54.
As to the impact PGO has already had on Chrome’s load and startup times, Google shares the following stats:
| New tab page load time | 14.8% faster |
| Page load (time to first paint) | 5.9% faster |
| Startup time | 16.8% faster |
Have you noticed Chrome getting faster recently?
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