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Google Frame Benchmarks 9x Faster than IE8

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they-framed-me dept.

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Early tests with Google's Chrome Frame found IE8 runs 9.6 times faster than usual. The testers ran the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite." The other question is what is the performance hit of using the Frame plug-in instead of running the browser natively.

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  1. The real question... by bignetbuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, Google Frame upgrades the engines...on the Titanic?

    1. Re:The real question... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      So, Google Frame upgrades the engines...on the Titanic?

      I'm the Bing of the world!

  2. Re:Whats the point... by Diabolus+Advocatus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You're wrong there mate. On our corporate intranet there's a section of javascript that's 256k in size. IE6 (corporate standard) takes about 20 seconds to load that while Firefox loads it instantly. It's not about how fast the Javascript is received, it's about how fast it's rendered.

  3. Re:Whats the point... by GooberToo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Likewise, I've seen javascript which manipulates large datasets, which takes the lion share of time to run; somewhere in the 30-60 second range. Recent javascript performance boosts have allows such manipulation of large datasets to become feasible and even practical.

    The truth is, more and more people are attempting to use a browser as a general purpose user interface for many applications which were previously considered unattainable with older browser technology and I only see additional momentum building in this direction.

    Fast rendering and javascript is a make or break for most of these types of applications.

  4. Re:benchmarks always forget the user experience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Aside from the retrieval of a page, rendering said (static) page will be instant in almost all cases, regardless the browser. If it doesn't, either the page is way way way too complicated or you are using an antiquated machine.

    Welcome to the world wide web, TheRealMindChild. Out here pages are "way way way too complicated". You can close your eyes and go "lalalala" but that doesn't mean those pages aren't there.

  5. Re:So just for giggles... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    100%, Fool!

    Proof : http://static.macgeneration.com/img/2009/07/googlexhrometestacid-20090922-225255.jpg

  6. Re:FFS read the articles you post! by hattig · · Score: 5, Funny

    Take me to your leader.

  7. Re:benchmarks always forget the user experience by Runaway1956 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This! ^

    Benchmarks aside, I feel like Chrome is the slowest thing on earth, because I see NOTHING until the page is finished loading. I try to be objective. I'll load the same page in Chrome and in FF. True, the page FINISHES about the same time, but with FF, I can see bits and pieces as they become available. Since I am interested in the text most of the time, it doesn't matter how long it takes for some other element to load - I'm never going to look at it. I WANT MY TEXT NOW!!

    That said - I agree with those who say web pages are to complicated today. Add in useless bloat like flash, advertising, etc. I can't browse any faster today with DSL than I did a few years ago with dial up! Something is badly wrong here.

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