Chrome makes a case in their "launch comic" that JavaScript performance can be vastly improved over current browsers, and go into some detail about how they achieve that. I decided to test it using the bubblemark site which provides a simple metric for various RIA technologies.
Using the DHTML test I ran the page on IE7, FF3, Safari for Windows, and Chrome. Here are the results:
| Browser | DHTML Score for 16 balls
(Lenovo T61p Vista x64 4Gb Ram) |
| IE7 | 62 fps |
| Safari | 55fps |
| Firefox 3 | 74 fps |
| Chrome | 136 fps |
That's a significant win for Chrome.
Flex performance was roughly the same across all browsers, and I was not able to test the Java (Swing) version on Chrome with Chrome reporting no plug-in was available.
Silverlight appears broken in Chrome, with dreadful performance - this is strange since it works fine on Safari which also uses WebKit although Google do state they have made many changes to the WebKit code. I am sure Microsoft are working as we speak on getting Silverlight fixed for Chrome for the release of version 2 (which should be soon).Â
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Cheers
Ian
posted @ Tuesday, September 02, 2008 11:24 PM