[The Godfather]

HP tested webOS on an iPad. It ran over twice as fast. - TNW Apple
The touchpad OS ran twice as fast in the iPad, than on the shiny new HP Touchpad.

HP would need some brass WebOS to continue on the fight.

[Spheric Harlot]

All articles claiming this point back to this single, unverified source, AFAICS.

I find this difficult to believe.

[lpkmckenna]

I don't believe a word of that story.

[Spheric Harlot]

Aaahhhhhh…this makes slightly more sense:

AppleInsider | HP ran its webOS SDK on iPad 2, hopes to license it as mobile web app tool

While early reports suggested that HP had internally got webOS running on Apple's iPad 2 hardware only to find that it purportedly ran "twice as fast" there, the reality is that webOS developers had actually brought their Enyo software development kit to the iPad 2, as AppleInsider has confirmed with a source within the webOS team.

Enyo is HP's JavaScript development framework for building web apps, core to webOS as a platform. Rather than resulting from an extreme difference in hardware, the aspect of Apple's tablet that made it run Enyo webOS apps so much faster is Apple's superior web browser JavaScript performance compared to the less sophisticated, simply named "Web" browser of webOS.

[Spheric Harlot]

Also:

"OUR" competitors?


Somebody is over-identifying with their tools of choice, no?

(Or do you actually work for Apple?)

[Big Mac]

Or perhaps he owns Apple stock.

[P]

The Touchpad uses a 1.2GHz dualcore in-order Snapdragon processor, while the iPad 2 uses a 1 GHz dualcore out of order A5 processor. It's basically a dualcore Atom without HT (Snapdragon) against a Core 2 (A5). While differences in software (the Javascript interpreter) certainly amount for some, the iPad DOES have the more powerful CPU.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally Posted by P 

The Touchpad uses a 1.2GHz dualcore in-order Snapdragon processor, while the iPad 2 uses a 1 GHz dualcore out of order A5 processor. It's basically a dualcore Atom without HT (Snapdragon) against a Core 2 (A5). While differences in software (the Javascript interpreter) certainly amount for some, the iPad DOES have the more powerful CPU.

Yeah, but running webOS in emulation 2x faster?

apart from that, it's been clarified what's going on, no?

[P]

Oh, it's clear enough that they're talking about "compiled" apps, and the interpreter is a big part of the difference. It is however worth pointing out that the CPU in the iPad 2 is a rather powerful beast.