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Firefox 3.5RC2 Performance In Windows Vs. Linux

Posted by timothy on from the tradeoffs-and-tradeoffs dept.

pizzutz writes "Andy Lawrence has posted a Javascript speed comparison for the recently released Firefox 3.5RC2 between Linux (Ubuntu 9.04) and Windows(XP SP3) using the SunSpider benchmark test. Firefox 3.5 will include the new Tracemonkey Javascript engine. The Windows build edges out Linux by just under 15%, though the Linux build is still twice as fast as the current 3.0.11 version which ships with Jaunty."

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  1. real world vs testbench by Werrismys · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Everything in these kind of tests usually makes MS and Intel compilers stand out vs gcc. On the desktop, the Wintel platform is shit slow all the time. I care for the latter. no 27 different systray update services for different crapware, the crapware, antivirus, etc running - just the apps and system services I have actually opted for,

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