Visually Demonstrating Chrome's Rendering Speed 140
eldavojohn writes "Recent betas of Google's Chrome browser are getting seriously fast. Couple that with better hardware, on average, and it's getting down to speeds that are difficult to demonstrate in a way users can appreciate. Which is why Google felt that some Rube Goldberg-ish demonstrations with slo-mo are in order. Gone are the days of boring millisecond response time metrics."
Making of Video (Score:4, Informative)
If you are interested in the behind the scene info.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oarMXGq3gI [youtube.com]
Re:Good stuff! (Score:2, Informative)
Ok Google, I've resisted getting Chrome up until this point but you've sold me. Until it gets some form of Adblock Plus like functionality it likely will not replace Firefox as my general purpose browser but as a backup browser I am going to give it a try now.
It already has that entension, and many others. It's also theme-able. You're behind the times! :P
Too bad they kind of cheated on the fetch speeds (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Why does it render from bottom to top? (Score:4, Informative)
See the video description for an FAQ (also n.b. this is measuring page rendering, not page downloading - 2 of the 3 sites were loaded locally):
"Why does allrecipes.com in the potato gun sequence appear at once, and not the text first and images second? And why does it appear to render from bottom of the screen to the top?"
Chrome sends the rendered page to the video card buffer all at once, which is why allrecipes.com appears at once, and not with the text first and images second. Chrome actually paints the page from top to bottom, but to eliminate a shadow from the driver board, we had to flip the monitor upside down and set the system preferences in Windows to rotate everything 180 degrees, resulting in the page appearing to render from bottom to top.
Equipment used:
- Computer: MacBook Pro laptop with Windows installed
- Monitor - 24" Asus: We had to replace the standard fluorescent backlight with very large tungsten fixtures to funnel in more light to capture the screen. In addition, we flipped the monitor 180 degrees to eliminate a shadow from the driver board and set the system preferences on the computer to rotate 180 degrees. No special software was used in this process.
- Camera: Phantom v640 High Speed Camera at 1920 x 1080, films up to 2700 fps
Re:Why does it render from bottom to top? (Score:3, Informative)
According to the description, the monitor is actually flipped upside down in order to eliminate some shadow.
Adblock for chome (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Too bad they kind of cheated on the fetch speed (Score:4, Informative)
From TFYTV [youtube.com]:
The other two examples were indeed from a local disk copy.
Re:You can bash Google all you want (Score:5, Informative)
Notice how the benchmark you linked to tests only JS; not performance in actual usage, which "a side-by-side comparison of Chrome and a few other browsers rendering in slow motion for comparison" would be about. Also, that 30% number is in relation just to previous version of Chrome.
Re:I think (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Chrome is cheating... (Score:3, Informative)