Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 01:08:42 +0200
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- Tweak
On Speed
http://my.opera.com/Rijk/blog/show.dml/9187431
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- I noticed some pro-Chrome and pro-Opera bitching in the Desktop team blog comments around performance of Opera 10.51 in the Peacekeeper benchmark. I wrote something to use in a comment there, but then I decided to blog it here instead. It's been a while :)
Some choice quotes:
Originally posted by VarunM:
Chrome 5.0.356.2 destroys Opera 10.51 Especially the "Data" section is ridiculous. Chrome was 300% faster than Opera.
Originally posted by Asires:
"Data" is unimportant in rendering. "Rendering" is important. Opera is twice faster than Chrome in rendering.. So, Opera is 200% faster than Chrome.
It is pretty much all nonsense to focus on the details and comparing them across systems, to be honest... It is great that the top-score belongs to Opera for now (though the Chrome developers are of course not resting before they get on top again!), and to see Opera in the front lines on all systems. It shows that the JavaScript developers (and other Core and Desktop developers) must be doing something right :-)
But how well a browser really serves you is a highly personal experience. It depends a lot on what kind of sites you visit, what hardware you run your browser on, your Windows version, and what extra browser features you can use/add/customize/get distracted by. The Peacekeeper benchmark seems to be a bit sensitive of your underlying system, in some cases Chrome beats Opera, in others it is the other way around. I don't think speed will be a limiting factor with either of these modern browsers to enjoy the current web.
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