tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36017112.post1218291662969905477..comments2024-03-17T16:34:38.393+00:00Comments on Featherweight Musings: How To Win Benchmarks And Influence PeopleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36017112.post-40536078125003865972012-12-18T20:03:39.058+00:002012-12-18T20:03:39.058+00:00Heh. In a nightly under linux with Layers accelera...Heh. In a nightly under linux with Layers acceleration enabled, radeon driver I got:<br />0fps in Firefox nightly<br />3fps in Firefox nightly with the background gradients disabled (btw, amusingly they disable the context menu which makes spotting this in the Inspector non-trivial for a user - dom.event.contextmenu.enabled;false prevents *that*)<br /><br /><br />If I switched to gfx.canvas.azure.backends;skia I got:<br />8fps with the cheating<br />25-26fps with the backgrounds disabled.<br /><br />I tried testing in Chromium Version 25.0.1324.0 (167307) but the dev tools were acting weird. Checkboxes continually flashing, context menu not displaying, couldn't seem to uncheck the gradient.<br />Nonetheless, Chromium *did* manage about 30fps w/ gradients enabled. Hard to say exactly, since it fluctuates up and down quite a bit.nemonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36017112.post-8629645434476896832012-12-17T17:46:13.696+00:002012-12-17T17:46:13.696+00:00I restarted Firefox and got 7 fps. Better than 0 b...I restarted Firefox and got 7 fps. Better than 0 but still no where near Chromium.<br /><br />The 0 fps run might have been caused by Firebug. Firebug wasn't running during the benchmark of course but after a while, Firefox becomes unbearably slow and needs to be restarted if Firebug was used at any time in the session.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06486830680460338853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36017112.post-57323933252376590622012-12-17T01:36:09.777+00:002012-12-17T01:36:09.777+00:00Less than 0 fps sounds pretty broken ... hard to s...Less than 0 fps sounds pretty broken ... hard to say what could be causing that.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01801341049800948737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36017112.post-88606986662366807232012-12-15T13:58:24.037+00:002012-12-15T13:58:24.037+00:00Chrome gives me 17fps on the same hardware.
Chrom...Chrome gives me 17fps on the same hardware.<br /><br />Chromium Version 22. Ubuntu 12.10 64bit<br />AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Processor<br />nVidia GeForce GTX 460 with 310.14 driver<br /><br />I'm a Firefox proponent but the Linux performance isn't helping my case lately.<br /><br />Since there's no Direct2D on Linux, what's the plan to get Firefox up to speed. Will Wayland help?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06486830680460338853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36017112.post-10394837589137653892012-12-15T10:53:07.263+00:002012-12-15T10:53:07.263+00:00Assuming good faith requires a reasonable innocuou...Assuming good faith requires a reasonable innocuous explanation for the benchmark behavior. In this case, it's hard to come up with one.<br /><br />"A Microsoft developer, instead of doing the obvious thing of setting a CSS gradient background on an element, accidentally set two slightly different backgrounds on different DIVs and accidentally wrote code to switch between them every frame."?<br /><br />That's just silly :-(.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01801341049800948737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36017112.post-34186335975287316712012-12-14T15:23:43.753+00:002012-12-14T15:23:43.753+00:00An easy way to test the impact of there two gradie...An easy way to test the impact of there two gradients, is to use the Style Inspector to wipe out the two background images.Alfredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14659465490974234666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36017112.post-63126349806665456562012-12-14T14:16:48.089+00:002012-12-14T14:16:48.089+00:00Sounds like a logical step would be to detect in s...Sounds like a logical step would be to detect in some way if the backend caches gradients and only use caching on our side if it doesn't.Robert Kaiserhttp://home.kairo.at/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36017112.post-89620956129591302912012-12-14T12:37:11.946+00:002012-12-14T12:37:11.946+00:00Have you contacted Microsoft about this? I think y...Have you contacted Microsoft about this? I think you should assume good faith, file a bug report on the benchmark and explain the situation.<br /><br />And if they refuse to fix the benchmark, ask for an official comment on the issues raised in this blogpost?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36017112.post-59561368452487500842012-12-14T12:36:09.034+00:002012-12-14T12:36:09.034+00:00I'm getting less than 0 fps.
Firefox 18 on Ub...I'm getting less than 0 fps.<br /><br />Firefox 18 on Ubuntu 12.10 64bit<br />AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Processor<br />nVidia GeForce GTX 460 with 310.14 driver<br /><br />Is this normal?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06486830680460338853noreply@blogger.com