I'd love to see this benchmark checked into mobile-spec. Probably we should create a sub-page for benchmarks, just like there is for Automated Tests.
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Simon MacDonald <simon.macdon...@gmail.com > wrote: > Here's my two cents. The current bridge in 2.0/2.1 is much slower than what > we are now defaulting to in the upcoming 2.2 release. That change improves > the FileReader performance greatly. However, switching to XHR speeds things > up by an order of magnitude. Using my quick patch the FileReader passes all > mobile spec test cases except the error conditions which need to be > converted. It looks like a major win for android if we make the switch. > > Folks on other platforms should run your benchmark to see if there is a > similar improvement and then run my patch through mobile spec to see of > there are any failures. > > With regards to CI yes we really do need this but I don't think we can set > it up in time to test this issue. > > Going back to hacking the camera now and I'll get off my soapbox. > > Simo > > On Friday, September 21, 2012, Daniel Kurka wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > in several situations I got frustrated with the performance of the > > phonegap File API. For some time we have used XHR as a replacement for > > FileReader within phonegap apps. > > I would really like to see the IO performance of phonegap to improve. > > First step in that way might be to use XHR instead of the bridge. > > > > To get this started I talked with Brian at Phonegap Day EU and he decided > > the best way to do this is to actual get some data first, this is what > > CB-1478 is about. > > So far it seems that we can make a major improvement on Android, BB. > > (other still need testing though) > > > > As Filip already pointed out some kind of benchmark should go into CI, so > > that we will not regress at any point. What could I do about that? > > Simon already proposed a patch which might work, but I wanted to get some > > feedback on this first ( > > > https://github.com/macdonst/incubator-cordova-js/commit/4c0134b827386d028f53370b3f5006b222939e26 > > ) > > > > So what do you guys think what the best way forward is? > > > > -Daniel > > > > > > > > > > -- > Simon Mac Donald > http://hi.im/simonmacdonald >
