Monday, 24. August 2009, 10:00:00
javascript, opera, futuremark, peacekeeper
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DailyTech recently
interviewed Futuremark's Oliver Baltuch. As some of you may know, Futuremark are the makers of the well known hardware benchmarking software, 3DMark. A while ago, they released the
Peacekeeper Web browser benchmark.
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Friday, 3. July 2009, 11:18:47
opera, benchmarks, performance, browsers
We are all used to all the
artificial JavaScript benchmarks out there by now. What they have in common is that they all test small parts of JavaScript, and none of them are testing real-life performance.
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Wednesday, 24. June 2009, 15:46:50
css, opera, benchmarks, performance
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Performance benchmarks are all the rage these days, but everyone seems to be focusing narrowly on artificial benchmarks that basically tell you how certain browsers perform at the particular JavaScript functions chosen for those particular benchmarks.
It's surprising that there is little or no focus on other, perhaps more relevant performance aspects of modern pages. For example, how do browsers perform when it comes to dynamically changing the style of a page (CSS)?
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Tuesday, 17. March 2009, 15:25:37
javascript, benchmarks, performance, browsers
It's
old news by now, but do we really need yet another one? Peacekeeper "simulates the load placed on the browser by common JavaScript functions as used by popular, modern websites", but weren't all the other ones supposed to be doing that as well?
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