Google has reportedly made the Chrome web browser significantly faster by using a feature of Microsoft's Visual Studio compiler:
Starting with the Chrome 53 release of 64-bit Chrome and version 54 of the 32-bit version, Google started using Microsoft's so-called Profile Guided Optimization technology to speed up startup times (by 17 percent), new tab page load times (by almost 15 percent), and overall page load times (by 6 percent) in Chrome.
Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) is a feature of Microsoft's Visual Studio developer tools that measures how users actually interact with an application. It then uses this training data and re-compiles the application with a focus on optimizing the most often used functions of the application.
Also at ZDNet.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @10:53AM
Hey this is Google. They do all new. Them using time-tested tools is major news!
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday November 02 2016, @04:14PM
Once Apple discovers the tool, its use will denote sheer unmitigated genius.