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1. Comment - A word about our Windows Web browser test suite

   (Jun 18, 2009 - 10:04 PM)

   One thing that isn't clear here is what the absolute numbers are. It's all well and good to say that this or that particular Javascript snippet executes such and such faster, but that doesn't mean much if it only makes up 2% of the CPU time on your favorite webpage, and that CPU time is only 10% of the total, the rest spent idly waiting on the network. I'd venture to say that a 10% increase in network efficiency will drown a 100% increase in rendering efficiency, when it comes to actually getting a webpage on your screen. This is especially true if the CPU tasks are happening at the same time as network, which I imagine they are. If I have to wait 3 seconds for a file to download, what do I care if you take all 3 of those seconds doing something on the CPU vs doing it in half a second and then sitting idle?
   
   All this concern about script speed seems more like marketing hype than anything a user would care about... but I may be wrong. Do you have any tests that actually show how long it takes to load google.com, msn.com, cnn.com? From empty cache to fully loaded and presented to the screen. And then how much of that time was actually spent in the CPU?
   
   (I'm not dismissing the results, this stuff is important, it's just that I don't think you can take them and make a blanket conclusion that Chrome is 1500% faster than IE7 in any meaningful way)

2. Comment - A look at Eeebuntu Base 3.0

   (May 28, 2009 - 1:24 PM)

   For a "base" edition, the CD image is very big at 562MB.