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A new speed milestone for Chrome

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Re: A new speed milestone for Chrome

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Post by saagarjha »

rektide wrote: post #19
rado wrote: post #12

Former champion Safari has been dog slow since v15. My benchmark https://youtu.be/5yCXPCVvUBY

apple's long defended their anti-choice stance under the pretense that they have the best, fastest, lowest resource usage browser. it's long been a tiring, self-aggrandizing, & dominionist perspective- of fantastically limited consideration given how constrained & limited the platform support Safari opts for. now that even that braggadocio is crumbling, i'm wondering what's left for Apple's pompous claims about rejec…

> i don't think it matters a lot for most users how fast the system is

This is why we had months of people raving about M1, of course.

Re: A new speed milestone for Chrome

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Post by pg_bot »

underyx wrote: post #2

My Speedometer results on an M1 Mac are: - Chrome v99: 204 - Safari: 266 How come I fall so far short of the post's advertised fastest-of-any-browser 300? Edit: Running in incognito got me a 251, so some of the slowdown must be from extensions. Edit 2: Seems like 1password and uBlock Origin decrease the score by around 30 each, I got a 276 with both disabled.

Hmm on my m1 air (16GB) I get a score of 300 ± 15 in incognito.

Re: A new speed milestone for Chrome

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Post by saagarjha »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #18

I’m glad perf is still a focus for the Chrome team. That said… > We know that benchmarks are just one of many ways of measuring the speed of a browser. This is very true, and with a few notable exceptions my experience is that Safari feels faster across the board even where it has consistently benched slower. This likely has less to do with runtime performance and more to do with process isolation models. I feel conf…

Can you explain why the process isolation model would matter here? It seems at best uncorrelated and my experience has been that aggressive process pooling improves, rather than degrades, system performance.

Re: A new speed milestone for Chrome

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Post by ksec »

Off Topic: Chrome is likely a very good benchmark for comparing between Intel x86 chip and Apple M1. Where Google spend enough time to optimise on both platform.

I wonder if they could work on Memory usage next.

Compared to Safari, getting jank from Address bar, bookmark, history, show all tabs, SafariBookMarkSyncAgent is leaking memory. It seems every release Safari added more features and bug fix for compatibility while performance has been in steady decline.

Re: A new speed milestone for Chrome

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Post by vincentriemer »

In the case of the MotionMark benchmark (more graphics/rendering focused), I have Safari beating Chrome's score by more than double (2703 vs 1152) on my M1 Max machine. Now I don't think Safari is 2x as fast as Chrome per se but it does explain how these speedometer tests can be so "close" yet Safari still feels faster.

EDIT: Firefox gets a 1336

Re: A new speed milestone for Chrome

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Post by pictur »

greggman3 wrote: post #17

There are certainly lots of situations where one browser beats another For example in this microbenchmark, Chrome is 10x slower than both FF and Safari at one method. https://jsbenchit.org/?src=cfcb916dd03df45952183e6484a14344 Here's another where in one case Firefox is 54x faster than Chrome https://jsbenchit.org/?src=beb26575ad78caa99a2a8c45ce2b780f

the color palette on the site is really weird. it took me 5 minutes to see the browser names :D
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