Ari Heitner wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Judson Valeski wrote:
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>
>>> Mike Pinkerton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Just doing some _very_ cursory testing, it appears that the macEmbed
>>>> harness (a powerplant app that embeds mozilla) is faster at layout
>>>> out pages than mozilla navigator. Here's what I see with two
>>>> equivalent debug builds (same tree):
>>>
>> Obviously we haven't narrowed this down, but the perf diff between
>> windows mozilla and winEmbed is huge (winEmbed is much "faster"); so
>> this doesn't suprise me at all. I've long speculated that XUL UI is
>> causing so many events to be fired/processed, that it bogs the world down.
>>
>
>
> This is why people use Galeon on linux: the GUI gets out of the way, and the
> result is a tremendously light, snappy browsing experience.
Did you know that the embedding widget that galeon uses uses XUL? :)
>
> I personally suspect that a lot of XUL time is being spent parsing XML
> (are even messages passed back and forth in XML? that would be *truly*
> evil...). Does anyone know how fast Mozilla's XML parser is?
I doubt it. We don't parse that often. I would suggest that you go and
get real timing data before assuming certain bits are slower than others.
--Chris
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