I am also curious about this topic. After conducting research, I have not come across any evidence indicating that Nitro is enabled in UIWebView. In fact, there seems to be plenty of proof suggesting that it was not enabled in version 4.3, restricted only to Safari itself. While there are claims that Nitro was activated in other applications besides Safari in version 5.0, I have yet to find concrete evidence supporting its activation in UIWebView.
According to an article on CNET which refers to a discussion on HN:
"There's also a way to create Web apps on iOS that doesn't use Safari
proper, an interface called UIWebView.
That doesn't look to be getting the Nitro speed-up for security
reasons involving just-in-time (JIT) compilation that Nitro uses to
create faster versions of JavaScript software on the fly."
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