On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> > 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? :)
Yes. but less of it, since the browser-provided part of the ui is straight
gtk. The galeon people would get rid of any XUL if they could :)
there's no question that the user experience is noticably better -- especially
on slow machines (among them the laptop i use every day, which clocks back to
133 MHz when running on battery). Less feeling of little laggy delays when
network stuff slows down (i assume that's what makes the ui grind while loading
pages. it's really bad, in any case).
of course the memory footprint size is the same or a little bigger (cost of
the gtk ui).
>
> >
> > 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.
>
just my theory :)
i'd love to profile it some time. perhaps later this semester i will get
around to it.
ari
