is FF 3.5 beta 5 out? I just installed 4 the other day.
On May 12, 10:00 am, mp- <[email protected]> wrote: > Firefox 3.5beta5 on WinXP. > > Google 227 (new) > Microsoft Live n/a > Yahoo Maps 136 > > Google is still nearly 2x slower using the slimmed "performance > tweaked" version compared to Yahoo Maps > > On May 12, 9:26 am, blizzard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Ok. I've updated the google page by adding the {clickable:false} and > > by turning off the shadows on the markers. At least I think I turned > > them off properly. It didn't seem very clear in google's > > documentation. Guess they don't want you to turn off the shadows. > > > I also, made and old link so you can see the difference these changes > > made in performance. Google still seems the slowest. > > > Here are my scores: > > WinXP SP3 Pentium 4 @ 2.6 with 4 GB Ram > > > Latest Dev of Chrome: > > Google 426 (old 650) > > MSN 319 > > Yahoo 236 > > > Yahoo's still on top but not a huge difference between the 3. But > > here's the kicker. The target audience of my app is for even the slow > > IE 6/7 browsers. Where the speed difference will definitely matter. > > > IE7: > > Google 3156 (old 3672) > > MSN 1484 > > Yahoo 1219 > > > Also, you can keep clicking the Go buttons to keep adding an > > additional 200 markers. In case you want to see how each maps scales > > with large numbers of markers. > > >http://www.quantumsite.com/maptest/google.html > > > On May 12, 1:00 am, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It really depends what features you want from a marker. The Google > > > GMarkers have: > > > > Separate shadows (i.e. ones that lie below other markers) > > > Organized overlap behaviour. > > > Clickable, even when in the shadow of an info window. > > > > The Live and Yahoo markers in your benchmark don't do any of that. > > > > A fair comparison would be to use custom markers without .shadow, > > > .transparent or .imageMap, which causes the code to run 2.5 times > > > faster, making Google the fastest of the three on my machine. > > > > Are Live or Yahoo markers clickable? If not it would also be fair to add > > > {clickable:false} which gains a few more milliseconds. > > > > --http://econym.org.uk/gmap > > > The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
