We did ship with crosswalk, which is a chrome webview that has the same performance optimization bugs:
See
- https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-discourse-so-slow-on-android/8823
- 2935 - v8 - V8 JavaScript Engine - Monorail
- Why was Ember 3x - 5x slower on Android?
Chrome owned up and patched it, but it’ll probably be a while before we see that patch hit Crosswalk