The document discusses the history and development of HTML5 and JavaScript performance. It covers how:
1) JavaScript performance improvements through just-in-time compilers and other optimizations led to a 100x increase in speed over time, enabling complex web applications.
2) The introduction of asm.js allowed native C/C++ code to be compiled to highly optimized JavaScript, closing the performance gap with native apps.
3) Recent efforts are bringing parallelism to web runtimes and the SIMD.js API in order to better utilize multi-core processors and continue improving JavaScript performance.