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chinarobin
"benchmark speed" or "real speed"
you can try the km 1.5 and km 1.6a3.
can u tell the difference?
Yes, I have always been testing and comparing 1.5 and 1.6.
Posted by: guenter (a89-182-95-217.net-htp.de)
Date: February 10, 2009 02:41AM
in http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?2,88719
1.6 (GRE 1.9.1) is ABSOLUT the fastest current browser for JS heavy pages.
No matter what compiler!
Settings and prefs are negliable but can speed up all GRE.
Per se they can achiece a lot - but cannot blure speed diffs reaally.
At least with alike settings the faster GRE will be IMHO faster.
On the same day a new chrome came out & was fastest.
But I found that a few days later when I compared with other browers.
Link by steve in the same thread. He did not check the dates and used 64 bit OS.
But 1.6 and 1.5 is the same browser.
so You are not comparing 1.5 and 1.6. You are comparing their html and script engines.
I also compared 1.6s with all different engines that I could get to work with them. Silly me even learned to build engines - so that my engines only had K-Meleon's typical subset of dll and xpt.
Much of GRE 1.8 and GRE 1.9 has the same feeling for K-meleon (starting fast, building big div fields and table fields fast...) except that the more recent 1.9's have faster JS as extra edge.
The benchmarks problem is described in the German text.
The benchmarks measure "benchmark speed". Subtle changes in the tests make that another browser is ahead and faster.
That is why siria says:
What I'm saying all the time - never trust a statistics you haven't bend yourself
What in the browser gives You "real speed" for every day purposes?
Besides the html and script engine - fast usability - e.g. whether native mouse gestures exist, whether they are done via XUL/JavaSript or via dll (the later is IMHO faster and more reactive to my input). How fast it starts up... Many things.
For me it always was K-Meleon or Opera. Except that I prefer on job tools.
p.s. If only JavaScript speed counted - we'd all changed to Google chrome some months ago and changed to Opera recently.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/24/2010 05:19AM by guenter.