Thursday, September 4, 2008

Chronoscope Browser Benchmark Live

Hey guys, in order to assist in the browser wars, and to let everyone test browser performance, I've built a publicly hosted version of the benchmark I used to test Google Chrome vs Firefox 3.1 and Safari 4.

Now you can run the same benchmarks too, just hop on over to http://api.timepedia.org/benchmark and let the battle begin!

As an errata for my previously published benchmarks, I did find that somehow my WebKit Nightly batch file wasn't invoking Safari correctly on my Win32 box (it was complaining about a file not found which I didn't see in the console), so my previous results were NOT with SquirrelFish. Upon rerunning with SquirrelFish, I find it actually does hold its own vs Chrome.

If you're one of those poor folks who are running IE, don't try to run the benchmark. :) It might run, but chances are, you'll get a slow script warning. Also, it uses Flash for rendering instead of Canvas, so it's not an Apples-to-Apples comparison.

2 comments:

Michael Croft said...

I'd be interested to kn ow how SquirrelFish Extreme performs for you.

I'm on a PPC mac, so I can't run Chrome (yet!), but the latest daily of Safari
give me these results:
Summary
Mean: 5206.5 stddev: 156.89247910591507
Estimated FPS
19.206760779794486 frames per second

while FF 3.1a2 gives these:
Summary

Mean: 7889.25 stddev: 147.35480141481648
Estimated FPS
12.675476122571855 frames per second

BGG001 said...

Summary Mean: 2495 stddev: 8.958236433584458

Estimated FPS 40.08016032064128 frames per second

Opera 10 Alpha...we have a winner.