Firefox performance

[Martin Sourada]

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 17:45 +0100, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> Is there anything we can do to improve the Fedora picture?
> http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-firefox
> 
> Adam Pribyl

Well, I'd say 'use webkit which is faster', but seeing how webkit/gtk
still lacks some pretty important features, I'll stay quiet for now ;-)
Here are my results (three runs) with (I don't have firefox installed so
I used epiphany):

epiphany-2.24.3-2.fc10.i386
xulrunner-1.9.0.6-1.fc10.i386
midori-0.1.2-0.2.fc10.i386 (self-built, but pretty much consistent with
the official Fedora package)
WebKit-gtk-1.1.0-0.18.svn40957.fc10.i386 (same as with midori)

Intel Celeron M420

                 epiphany          midori
      Score:  105   \pm  3       869 \pm  9
   Richards:  106   \pm 10      1687 \pm  8
  DeltaBlue:  127.7 \pm  0.6    1149 \pm 16
     Crypto:   83.6 \pm  0.6    1153 \pm 16
   RayTrace:   87   \pm  1       684 \pm 22
EarleyBoyer:  144   \pm  8      1793 \pm  9
     RegExp:   96.0 \pm  0.3     156 \pm  6

Well, the difference is so huge that I wonder whether this test [1]
actually gives reliable report about performance (yep, I notice WebKit
is faster than gecko, but definitely not multiple times).

Cheers,
Martin

References:
[1] http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v3/run.html
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