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

Lucian Branescu lucian.branescu at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 16:33:22 EDT 2009


Apparently someone did that for me
http://www.j5live.com/2007/08/02/webkit-and-xulrunner-mozilla-side-by-side-on-the-xo/

2009/6/10 Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Lucian
> Branescu<lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't think I have the results anymore, but benches between
>> epiphany-webkit and epiphany-gecko were very similar.
>
> Lucian -- what Jonas and I are trying to say is: even if gecko is
> (was?) by less "performant" than webkit on a standard machine and
> using gecko's default settings, you _have_ to test tuned gecko vs
> tuned webkit.
>
> "Out-of-the-box" performance isn't what matters to the end user.
>
> I agree with you, the usual perception is that opera and webkit
> engines are faster / lighter than gecko. But right now, gecko-based
> Browse.xo is noticeably faster than opera.
>
> Can you prepare a hand-tuned webkit-based Browse.xo so a reasonable
> comparison can be made?
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
>
> m
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