I'm such an idiot, I forgot to link the results. Here http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/317039/webkit%20vs%20gecko.txt
2009/3/28 Lucian Branescu <lucian.brane...@gmail.com>: > I've been doing some benchmarks between firefox and safari nightlies > on OS X Leopard x86. Firefox had Tracemonkey and Safari had > SquirrelFish Extreme. > Every test was run three times and the best time was recorded. Memory > usage is Real Size as reported by the OS X (Activity Monitor and top). > > I asked around on #firefox and #webkit, people in general agreed that > the v8 bench is purely synthetic, since it mainly tests recursion and > memory management. SunSpider was said to be the most indicative of > real-world usage and Dromaeo the most comprehensive. > > The results may vary greatly on linux, and in particular the XO. > bernie (or bemasc, sorry I keep getting your nicks mixed up) was > thinking of testing on the XO, I don't know how far he got. (if you do > test, also try the chrome experiments) > > In the end, I believe it may be beneficial for Sugar to switch to > webkit, but it would be best to not introduce a new dependency only > for the web-activity thing. The difference isn't that great and things > like Bespin manage to work fine on firefox. > > A webkit backend for hulahop would probably be an interesting project, > but I may be wrong since I don't know that much about hulahop's API. > > > 2009/3/27 Jameson Quinn <jameson.qu...@gmail.com>: >> >>> >>> 3 months is a very short period to bring not only 2 but 4 people to work >>> together across multiple time zones. >> >> I brought this up on #gsoc yesterday, and LH (the top authority) was >> somewhat skeptical about any coordination. I said we would leave it up to >> the students involved, and she said that sounded good, but Google would have >> to approve any final plan, and they wanted to avoid any dependencies, >> whether implicit or explicit, on the future work of anyone besides the >> mentor and the student. >> >> Jameson >> >> > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel