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A Real World HTML 5 Benchmark

Posted by timothy on from the global-variables dept.

KidCompy writes "The newest browsers boast huge performance improvements, but how much do you trust benchmarks trotted out to prove those claims? Do they reflect the real uses to which developers will put HTML 5 and JavaScript? We've extracted several benchmarks from our existing programs to measure actual versus theoretical performance."

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  1. Re:Not much faith in their programmers... by Carewolf · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Chrome is reporting both as safari and as chrome, it even includes a safari version number, as a minimum safari-version it is compatible with. When Chrome is spoofing to anyone not specifically testing for Chrome, it is hard to blame anyone misdetecting them.

  2. Interpreted languages ftw by ponos · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, seeing a Mandelbrot algorithm running on an interpreted language on top of an interpreted language and
    struggling on my super powerful quad core makes me suffer. I had coded the Mandelbrot fractal in assembly
    and it ran faster on a 80386...

    Now get out of my lawn...