{"id":331,"date":"2009-03-28T22:41:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T05:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2020-09-12T13:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T18:30:45","slug":"various-browser-benchmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/2009\/03\/various-browser-benchmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Various Browser Benchmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been installing\/reinstalling\/testing a lot of browsers recently, so I thought I&#8217;d provide a little bit of data back to the programming community.<\/p>\n<p>I tested on two different computers &#8212; my venerable Dell laptop and my largely MSI-powered gaming PC.<\/p>\n<p>Some thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The newest Opera 10 build on Linux does <em>not<\/em> like the SunSpider benchmark.\u00c2\u00a0 Understandably, it&#8217;s a benchmark put together by the WebKit browser team, but still &#8212; it performed about as bad as I&#8217;d suppose Internet Explorer would (were it to run on Linux).\u00c2\u00a0 I ran it twice just to make sure, and it was about 10k milliseconds each time.<\/li>\n<li>Chromium, whether it&#8217;s on Windows XP, or the pre-alpha build I&#8217;m using on Linux, is pretty damn fast.\u00c2\u00a0 Like scary fast.\u00c2\u00a0 Though, like I said, it <em>is<\/em> their own benchmark.<\/li>\n<li>Seamonkey on Linux is consistently faster than Firefox 3.1b3 on Linux.\u00c2\u00a0 I have no idea why, since they&#8217;re supposed to be powered by the exact same engine.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s amazing how much faster an older computer (Like my Dell laptop) can feel when you use a browser that&#8217;s optimized to render JavaScript faster.\u00c2\u00a0 It seriously feels like an entirely different computer.<\/li>\n<li>I tried running this test in Internet Explorer 6.0 via Wine, on Ubuntu.\u00c2\u00a0 I figured it&#8217;s not exactly emulation (since <strong>W<\/strong>ine <strong>I<\/strong>s <strong>N<\/strong>ot an <strong>E<\/strong>mulator and all), but it kept freezing on one of the &#8220;base64&#8221; tests, and I got tired of waiting on it and killed the process.\u00c2\u00a0 Imagine that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now, the benchmark numbers, utilizing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.webkit.org\/perf\/sunspider-0.9\/sunspider.html\">SunSpider JavaScript benchmark<\/a> (smaller numbers are better, all numbers in thousandths of a second):<\/p>\n<p><strong>Computer #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hardware:\u00c2\u00a0 Dell Laptop, Pentium 4-M 2.6 GHz, 1.5GB DDR Ram<\/p>\n<p>Software:\u00c2\u00a0 Ubuntu 8.04 (x86)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10572.4ms:\u00c2\u00a0 Opera 10 Alpha, Build 4214<\/li>\n<li>8435.8ms:\u00c2\u00a0 Flock 2.0.3<\/li>\n<li>8171.8ms:\u00c2\u00a0 Firefox 3.0.8<\/li>\n<li>5243.6ms:\u00c2\u00a0 Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 (Shiretoko)<\/li>\n<li>4701.4ms:\u00c2\u00a0 Seamonkey 2.0 Alpha 3<\/li>\n<li>1506.4ms:\u00c2\u00a0 Chromium Dev Build<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Computer #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hardware:\u00c2\u00a0 MSI Mainboard, Athlon X2 2.5GHz (Brisbane), 2GB DDR2 RAM<\/p>\n<p>Software:\u00c2\u00a0 Windows XP SP3 (x86)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6930.8ms:\u00c2\u00a0 Internet Explorer 8<\/li>\n<li>2097.8ms:\u00c2\u00a0 Firefox 3.1 Beta 3<\/li>\n<li>952.4ms:\u00c2\u00a0 SRWare Iron 2.0 (Chromium)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been installing\/reinstalling\/testing a lot of browsers recently, so I thought I&#8217;d provide a little bit of data back to the programming community. I tested on two different computers &#8212; my venerable Dell laptop and my largely MSI-powered gaming PC. Some thoughts: The newest Opera 10 build on Linux does not like the SunSpider benchmark.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,18,14,15],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-programming","category-reviews","category-science-and-technology","tag-linux"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ZUZG-5l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4684,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/4684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.threshold-zero.com\/cblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}