[Sugar-devel] webkit, hulahop; developing apps using browser engine DOM for widgets

[Lucian Branescu]

Before GSoC started, I did my own tests of webkit vs gecko. Firefox
lost everywhere and lost especially bad on memory usage.

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/317039/webkit%20vs%20gecko%20osx.txt
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/317039/webkit%20vs%20gecko%20soas.txt
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/317039/webkit%20vs%20gecko%20winxp.txt

2009/6/10 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>:
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> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:42:49PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>>> Two things to consider when looking at this...
>>>
>>>  - Startup, memory use and general responsiveness on XO hardware and
>>> general netbook hw. The current Browse.xo compares _very_ favourably
>>> with Firefox and Opera on XO-1 hardware.
>>
>>* webkit is known for / designer for very good performance and low
>>memory usage, and is used in nokia S60 phones, the iphone, the latest
>>palm phone (as the basis for WebOS), google android's web browser - you
>>name it, webkit's been there and done that.  [it should tell you
>>something that the world's top major smart-phone manufacturers _don't_
>>use firefox, or they pay for opera]
>
> [snip]
>
>>in this case the google chrome project; the engineers added V8 to
>>_their_ version of webkit, and merging back is taking quite some time.
>
> In addition to performance, there is another obvious reason for big
> players choosing webkit over mozilla: Licensing!
>
> Funny how you mention an example of that yourself: It is in the interest
> of big players to be ahead.  Being non-evil is relevant too, so they
> choose something "Free", but favor things that they can fork for own
> commercial use to stay competitive.
>
>
> Politics aside, I do not doubt that webkit might perform better than
> mozilla.  In some situations.  Optimized in certain ways.  'Cause there
> are a bunch of complex factors, as I understand it (and I don't
> understand it that deeply, really).
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>  - Jonas
>
> - --
> * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt
> * Tlf.: +45 40843136  Website: http://dr.jones.dk/
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