I did some more testing, this time in SoaS inside VirtualBox. It's as close as I can get to an XO.
I used this code for hulahop http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Code_Snippets#WebView Similar code for pywebkitgtk. Results here http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/317039/webkit%20vs%20gecko%20soas.txt They seem to be consistent with my results on OS X. Also, it occured to me that making a pywebkitgtk backend for hulahop would be easier than I had thought. 2009/3/28 Lucian Branescu <lucian.brane...@gmail.com>: > I'm such an idiot, I forgot to link the results. > Here http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/317039/webkit%20vs%20gecko.txt > > 2009/3/28 Lucian Branescu <lucian.brane...@gmail.com>: >> I've been doing some benchmarks between firefox and safari nightlies >> on OS X Leopard x86. Firefox had Tracemonkey and Safari had >> SquirrelFish Extreme. >> Every test was run three times and the best time was recorded. Memory >> usage is Real Size as reported by the OS X (Activity Monitor and top). >> >> I asked around on #firefox and #webkit, people in general agreed that >> the v8 bench is purely synthetic, since it mainly tests recursion and >> memory management. SunSpider was said to be the most indicative of >> real-world usage and Dromaeo the most comprehensive. >> >> The results may vary greatly on linux, and in particular the XO. >> bernie (or bemasc, sorry I keep getting your nicks mixed up) was >> thinking of testing on the XO, I don't know how far he got. (if you do >> test, also try the chrome experiments) >> >> In the end, I believe it may be beneficial for Sugar to switch to >> webkit, but it would be best to not introduce a new dependency only >> for the web-activity thing. The difference isn't that great and things >> like Bespin manage to work fine on firefox. >> >> A webkit backend for hulahop would probably be an interesting project, >> but I may be wrong since I don't know that much about hulahop's API. >> >> >> 2009/3/27 Jameson Quinn <jameson.qu...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> >>>> 3 months is a very short period to bring not only 2 but 4 people to work >>>> together across multiple time zones. >>> >>> I brought this up on #gsoc yesterday, and LH (the top authority) was >>> somewhat skeptical about any coordination. I said we would leave it up to >>> the students involved, and she said that sounded good, but Google would have >>> to approve any final plan, and they wanted to avoid any dependencies, >>> whether implicit or explicit, on the future work of anyone besides the >>> mentor and the student. >>> >>> Jameson >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel