Mozilla Unleashes the Kraken

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla has released the first version a new browser benchmark called Kraken. Mozilla's Robert Sayre writes on his blog, 'More than Sunspider, V8, and Dromaeo, Kraken focuses on realistic workloads and forward-looking applications. We believe that the benchmarks used in Kraken are better in terms of reflecting realistic workloads for pushing the edge of browser performance forward. These are the things that people are saying are too slow to do with open web technologies today, and we want to have benchmarks that reflect progress against making these near-future apps universally available.' On my somewhat elderly x86_64 Linux system Google Chrome 6.0.472.55 beta completes the Kraken benchmark in 28638.1 milliseconds, Opera 10.62 completes it in 23612.4 milliseconds, and the current Firefox 4 nightly build completes it in 19897.5 milliseconds."

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Good, that means a world were people could code

[SmallFurryCreature]

Good, that means a world were people could still code. Were people didn't jump on to the latest flavor language/framework because they want auto-generated code that takes a super computer to run. Sorry but Java and .NET are to me NOT the holy pinacles of coding achievement. They are usuable languages that unfortunally have gotten overloaded by people who use them not to code but rather to not code. Just click on wizards and generate code.

With a shift to Javascript, people might actually have to start thinking about cpu cycles again. Optimizations rather then bloat.

Yes in some ways everything old is new again and maybe that is because a text editor really shouldn't use gigs of memory. Maybe the future is in small apps that do one thing well and do it cost effective. Gosh, if only there was an OS based on this philosophy.

I see the move to the browser as a move to be OS and device independent. Gmail works EVERYWHERE. It does everything I need it to do and as an extra bonus I can use it anywhere. No more Windows, Linux, OS-X requirement. No more version differences or installs or license keys. Just fire up any browser and my mail is there.

Same with google docs. Sure sure, it don't do everything Office or even OpenOffice does, but I don't use 99% of the features. And for not confusing me with features I do not need and want, it again has freed me from hardware and OS, and I can access it anywhere. Crashed HD? No worry to me.

Yes, there are downsides, but frankly the recent 20 years of needing a super sized OS installed with bloated software has its downsides too.

I made a virtual machine recently for testing of XP. 2GIGs HD were NOT enough for a base install and update. 2 GIGS. And the OS didn't even do anything useful yet.

I do not think every program can go to the web. But javascript itself is a solid language, just mis understood by Java freaks who think there is only one way to code (see the large number of javascript libraries that seek to twist javascript into something it is not) and with the browser show intresting possibilties to get programs out of the OS/hardware lockin and widely available.

If that means the death of Java and .NET... well I am not going to shed a tear. If you said it would kill C or C++ I might care but not for .NET

Re:Obvious...

[nschubach]

Oh, hah. Guess I need to get my breakfast and quite screwing around on Slashdot.

Re:I hope that Firefox isn't playing Microsoft's g

[Anonymous Coward]

Mind translating the first sentence into English?