Before GSoC started, I did my own tests of webkit vs gecko. Firefox lost everywhere and lost especially bad on memory usage.
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/317039/webkit%20vs%20gecko%20osx.txt http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/317039/webkit%20vs%20gecko%20soas.txt http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/317039/webkit%20vs%20gecko%20winxp.txt 2009/6/10 Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:42:49PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >>> Two things to consider when looking at this... >>> >>> - Startup, memory use and general responsiveness on XO hardware and >>> general netbook hw. The current Browse.xo compares _very_ favourably >>> with Firefox and Opera on XO-1 hardware. >> >>* webkit is known for / designer for very good performance and low >>memory usage, and is used in nokia S60 phones, the iphone, the latest >>palm phone (as the basis for WebOS), google android's web browser - you >>name it, webkit's been there and done that. [it should tell you >>something that the world's top major smart-phone manufacturers _don't_ >>use firefox, or they pay for opera] > > [snip] > >>in this case the google chrome project; the engineers added V8 to >>_their_ version of webkit, and merging back is taking quite some time. > > In addition to performance, there is another obvious reason for big > players choosing webkit over mozilla: Licensing! > > Funny how you mention an example of that yourself: It is in the interest > of big players to be ahead. Being non-evil is relevant too, so they > choose something "Free", but favor things that they can fork for own > commercial use to stay competitive. > > > Politics aside, I do not doubt that webkit might perform better than > mozilla. In some situations. Optimized in certain ways. 'Cause there > are a bunch of complex factors, as I understand it (and I don't > understand it that deeply, really). > > > Kind regards, > > - Jonas > > - -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEAREDAAYFAkovwGoACgkQn7DbMsAkQLiWewCeOEWD3U/h3+a86pspufAxNCsd > oq0Anj/DocriLteTchZyYXOyvQd4A17W > =fgtd > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
