50% faster scripts on Linux
Noticed this checkin comment in todays bonsai:
Don't reset the notification timer on every parse start/stop. This speeds up flurries of little document.write calls a good bit.
From the bug's comment:
This should keep behavior on "normal" pages about the same, but keep us from thrashing the timers. It makes us about 50% faster on those testcases on Linux (so about 1.5-2 times slower than Opera).
Again this is what makes Mozilla such a great project and a worldclass browser. You see improvements all the times. It simple just keeps getting better, smaller and faster. Hopefully the world will realize this soon. But we have to tell them!
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3 Comments
Don't want to spoil your fun, but.. you say it yourself ("so about 1.5-2 times slower than Opera") ;) So, eventhough this "makes Mozilla such a great project and a worldclass browser", there are even better alternatives.
Well, I've tested it a bit with this script thingy:
var x=Date.now();
for (i=0; iline number " + i + "");}
var y=Date.now();
var z=y-x;
alert(z);
With Mozilla 1.7RC2 I get appr. 4900 ms.
With Mozilla 1.8 alpha I get appr. 2200 ms.
On windowsXP. Duron600MHz. 1GB memory.
So this is great progress and a great job from Boris. Let's all go back and use that good old document.write again :)
Comment by Martijn at May 22, 2004 12:11 AM | Permalink
Don't want to spoil your fun, but.. you say it yourself ("so about 1.5-2 times slower than Opera") ;) So, eventhough this "makes Mozilla such a great project and a worldclass browser", there are even better alternatives.