Vimb - the vim like browser is a webkit based web browser that behaves like the vimperator plugin for the firefox and usage paradigms from the great editor vim. The goal of vimb is to build a completely keyboard-driven, efficient and pleasurable browsing-experience.
The hinting script uses a lot of methods that measure the style and dimensions of DOM-Nodes which causes syncronous Recalculations of the layout wich is expensive see https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/rendering/avoid-large-complex-layouts-and-layout-thrashing It's the target of this issue to find/evaluate a method to avoid some of the recalculations to speed up the hinting JavaScript (https://sking7.github.io/articles/449317090.html).