First speed results of Arachne for Linux/SVGAlib with TCP/IP and image
loading implemented (Mozilla=Netscape 6 for Linux). Multiple attempts.
1.5 Mbps connection, Arachne on K5/100, Mozilla on K6-2/400:
Arachne-net Arachne-cache Mozilla-net Mozilla-cache
slashdot.org 10 - 13 sec 1 sec 4-6 sec 2.8 sec
www.arachne.cz 7 sec 1 sec 6-9 sec 1.5 sec
freshmeat.net 7 sec 1 sec 6 sec 6 sec (???)
home.arachne.cz 1 sec 0 sec (+/- 2 sec 1 sec
www.novinky.cz 12 sec 1 sec 7 sec 3.5 sec
This means, that Arachne HTML rendering and viewing engine is faster than
Mozilla's GECKO, if compiled on Linux. But Mozilla is better at
downloading multiple images from Net. Note, that Arachne is still almost
completely unoptimzed for 32bit enviroment.
Mozilla takes few seconds to load, while Arachne starts in less than 1
second.
And now the best news:
size of Arachne: 4 MB
size of Mozilla: 27 MB
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http://arachne.cz/
(Arachne WWW browser for DOS+Linux / Webhosting / MP3streaming)
