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by benjamincburns 4568 days ago
Maybe I'm biased, but jor1k is my FF benchmark of choice these days. Sadly I'm not seeing any major performance increase over FF 25 (posting this from jor1k via links [1]).

1: http://s-macke.github.io/jor1k (had to edit in the link as the ':' and '-' keys don't appear to be working)
4 comments
bzbarsky 4568 days ago
I get about 170MIPS in Firefox 25 on that link. I get about 173MIPS in Firefox 26. A nightly is at about 179MIPS.

Chrome on the same hardware is at 80MIPS for me, so I think Firefox is doing OK here...

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dijit 4568 days ago
hm, that's simple 'does this use case run 1 thing particularly well.'

EXIF rotation and ability to use gstreamer for video are massive feature improvements that may result in slower page generation, but the returns are far more significant.

not everything has to be 'better, faster, smaller' making things generally better with _no_ regressions is difficult enough.

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benjamincburns 4568 days ago
Yeah, I phrased that poorly (was fighting with links and not thinking about my words too carefully). I didn't mean to knock the release by any means. I was only making the observation that there didn't appear to be much in the way of asm.js performance improvement this time around.

And you're absolutely right; the fact that there are additional features/improvements and I get to keep the same (awesome) performance from FF 25 is very impressive and laudable. I can enumerate several FOSS projects for which this sort of thing is an issue.

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jakub_g 4568 days ago
Looking at the last graph in [1] there were certain improvements in certain areas in recent months, both in Firefox and Chrome, however memory usage has been slowly but steadily increasing [2].

However I'm not an expert regarding those graphs.

[1] http://arewefastyet.com/ [2] https://areweslimyet.com/

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yeukhon 4568 days ago
Give Firefox time. Mozilla is really small, compared to Chrome... and Firefox is stable! Hehehe. css transform is still a major performance sucker.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=css%20t...

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bzbarsky 4568 days ago
Firefox beats the pants off Chrome on benjamincburns's testcase, at least for me.
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