Why mobile web apps are slow →
Drew Crawford:
I’m not going to guarantee that this article will convince you, nor even that absolutely everything in here is totally correct–it’s impossible to do in an article this size–but I can guarantee this is the most complete and comprehensive treatment of the idea that many iOS developers have–that mobile web apps are slow and will continue to be slow for the forseeable future.
Long but very good article, full of evidence and citations instead of dogma and generalizations, on why Javascript and garbage-collected languages will continue to incur huge performance penalties on mobile devices for the foreseeable future.