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Is Microsoft’s Edge browser really faster than Google’s Chrome?

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Re: Is Microsoft’s Edge browser really faster than Google’s Chrome?

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Post by calvin »

lern_too_spel wrote: post #3
FriedrichNahme wrote: post #2

Security, privacy and usability are much more important to me than raw performance.

For those three and web standards support, things look even worse for Edge.

Based on what evidence?

IE11 has pretty solid web standards support:

https://status.modern.ie/?iestatuses=implemented&browserstat...

And Edge promises a lot more.

Re: Is Microsoft’s Edge browser really faster than Google’s Chrome?

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

> For the Edge browser Microsoft has again decided to develop their own rendering engine, instead of relying on open source alternatives (Blink, Gecko, WebKit). I have to doubt their decision as a browser engine is a big development effort and they need to be updating it from now to eternity.

Um, why would they move when they already have an engine? Sure you can argue they should have moved to WebKit or Gecko or even Opera's rendering engine years ago but Trident has been improved significantly over the years. Don't forget Edge is based on Trident (so it's not entirely new or anything as implied in the post; it provided a good base to rip legacy support out of and to improve other things).

Beyond that though it seemed fine just kinda felt like the author had a bias against Microsoft from that first statement where he / she questioned their rendering engine decisions. I'm also not entirely convinced they tuned explicitly for the benchmarks they called out; sure they may have but I don't know that I believe they necessarily would have had to.

Re: Is Microsoft’s Edge browser really faster than Google’s Chrome?

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Post by Klathmon »

It all depends on your workload.

I'm working on a web app that uses typed arrays heavily.

Chrome runs my test case in 2.7 seconds, Firefox in 3.2, and IE Edge in 23 seconds... (ie 11 in 30+)

Now to be fair i developed "for" firefox, checking that it worked in IE and chrome the whole way, but that is a pretty large performance difference.

Plus i've always hated benchmarks. They are so easy to "game" without real improvements in actual code. They are great for development and regression testing, but when used to compare engines i've found they are nearly useless.

All that being said, I applaud the IE team for really sticking to their promise of improving the browser and it seems they are going to give Chrome and FF a run for their money soon.

Re: Is Microsoft’s Edge browser really faster than Google’s Chrome?

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Post by calvin »

Issue #1: performance claims based on tests from one device configuration. The best performance data is gathered from as many sources as possible. In the spectrum of statistics, one data point is not enough.

Issue #2: "Personally I have found the Peacekeeper results to be a reliable measurement of web browsers performance." Is there data to back up this claim?

Re: Is Microsoft’s Edge browser really faster than Google’s Chrome?

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Post by Klathmon »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #6

> For the Edge browser Microsoft has again decided to develop their own rendering engine, instead of relying on open source alternatives (Blink, Gecko, WebKit). I have to doubt their decision as a browser engine is a big development effort and they need to be updating it from now to eternity. Um, why would they move when they already have an engine? Sure you can argue they should have moved to WebKit or Gecko or even…

I sincerely hope they NEVER use another engine. Diversity is our friend, and having multiple engines all on similar terms means that bugs won't end up as "correct" and it helps push everyone forward.
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