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How Do Browsers Scale?

Posted by Soulskill on from the depends-where-you-drag-your-mouse dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Benchmarking browsers is a somewhat silly exercise, since scores cannot be replicated on a variety of hardware, and it is not uncommon for even the same system to fail to replicate benchmarks scores, especially in JavaScript tests in two succeeding runs. The guys over at ConceivablyTech have an interesting approach, running browsers through multiple tests on different sets of hardware (including an Android smartphone), and showing the scaling differences between browsers when you are using a dual-core netbook on the low-end and a six-core desktop on the high-end. They also tested HTML5 on Firefox mobile and found the browser has better HTML5 support than the current Firefox 4 Beta 6."

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  1. Re:Conclusion: Firefox 3.6 scales best across core by icebike · · Score: -1, Troll

    Links?

    Did you mean http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

    Seriously, if you are going to start your argument frofrom there I see no point in continuing, since you seem trapped in the prior century.

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  2. FUCK JavaScript by Massacrifice · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sing along :

    If you love your dad,
    Like I love your mom,
    FUCK JAVASCRIPT

    If your browser fails
    To wear a condom
    FUCK JAVASCRIPT

    Oh, Stroustrup what have you done?
    You knew it all along!
    Tim Berners-Lee got it all wrong
    Gopher, it was the one!

    FUCK JAVASCRIPT
    FUCK JAVASCRIPT
    FUCK JAVASCRIPT

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    1. Re:FUCK JavaScript by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 1, Troll

      What makes you think that somebody who remembers what gopher was would be young? What makes you think that someone who thinks that mixing content with code is a bad idea is of lower intelligence?

      If these two posts were all that I were to go on, then I'd be forced to conclude that the GP is older and more intelligent than you. Your UIDs only help to reinforce my conclusion.

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    2. Re:FUCK JavaScript by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 0, Troll

      tl;td;dr (too long, too drunk, didn't read)

      your point is invalid.

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  3. Re:Conclusion: Firefox 3.6 scales best across core by FloydTheDroid · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's a shame they didn't bother to mention what the coding flaw is. If I were to hazard a guess it would be that the flaw is that the test is written to make Safari look good, not Chrome. The V8 benchmark fixes this.