><i>I'm surprised by Firefox 4's performance. The Mozilla web pages claim to be matching or surpassing Chrome's speed but my measurements show them to be a lot slower.</i><p>Having recently done some benchmarking of my own code, and from simply running the browsers side-by-side a fair bit, this doesn't surprise me a bit. Firefox 4 consistently comes out 3x slower <i>or worse</i> than Chrome/Safari (I don't have Opera handy). I keep seeing claims, I keep seeing benchmarks, but I've never been able to replicate their results with <i>any</i> code I've written. <i>Significantly</i> faster than FF3, don't get me wrong, but they've still got a fair distance to go if they want to claim faster-than-WebKit.<p>I quite like this benchmark setup. Real-world results, split by display time. Nice writeup!
I like this because it clearly shows just how horribly bad web technologies really are. I used to say the web turned your computer into an IBM 3070 with a 386 under the hood.<p>Now I'll say the web turns your computer into an IBM 3070 with a TRS-80 under the hood.
I grew up on Galaxy Invasion and SubLogic's Flight Simulator. (Too bad they don't have that one available on the emulator page.)<p><i>I'm interested to see what changes with the 4.2 OS soon to be released.</i><p>I'd like to see that, too. I wrote Peter an email to ask if he'd gotten a chance to do that.