On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, JTK wrote:
>
> As for the "4 times", it was stated by somebody in .performance only
> a week or so ago to be ~8 times slower [than IE].
Yes. Things are moving fast.
> I have no way to directly compare myself, so I can only repeat what
> I've heard from others.
On local network stress testing of page loading on an ~800 MHz Windows
2000 machine with 512MB of RAM (IIRC), IE scores in the 200ms per page
load range and recent Mozilla builds score in the 800ms per page load
range. (These are the results for jrgm's tests on hyatt's machine.)
Naturaly, it does vary based on the configuration.
>> I refer people who want to know the accurate numbers to the
>> n.p.mozilla.performance newsgroup.
> Well that's the rub, ain't it Hixie? There really are no official,
> reproducable numbers in .performance or anywhere else as to
> Maozilla's performance in relation to either its predecessor or IE,
> is there?
Well, actually there are. Daily and weekly numbers.
> Where's the charts and graphs showing Mathuzilla's progress on
> rendering time, memory hoggage, etc, compared to these other
> browsers?
Well, oddly enough, charts and graphs are regularly posted to the
newsgroup I mentioned. Look for posts by jrgm, PaulW, and Sairuh.
> Let me guess: behind a firewall.
Only one of the tests (to my knowledge) is behind a firewall, and that
is purely for technical reasons (the content comes from real web sites
and so copyright issues prevent Netscape from making the tests
publically available). The results are published regularly. I once
again refer the interested reader to the performance newsgroup, where
one will find charts and graphs for many things such as page
rendering, page loading over a network, startup time, preferences
display, bookmarks and so on.
Should the Netscape (AOL) numbers be doubted by anyone, I strongly
encourage these people to create and run their own tests and publish
the results and graphs regularly. Past experience has shown that
easily obtainable hard numbers are an amazing motivator.
HTH,
--
Ian Hickson )\ _. - ._.) fL
Netscape, Standards Compliance QA /. `- ' ( `--'
+1 650 937 6593 `- , ) - > ) \
irc.mozilla.org:Hixie _________________________ (.' \) (.' -' __________
