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Sunday 7 September 2008
By dgirard on Sunday 7 September 2008, 21:42 - Browser
Dobes Vandermeer
I am the developer and user of online accounting software for small businesses written using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). When I tried our software in Chrome out of curiousity I was astounded to see how fast it was - first, it loads regular web pages as fast or faster than Opera, my old favorite browser. Second, it loads and runs my accounting application much faster than I’ve ever seen before!
Google Chrome makes GWT apps Zoom !
Friday 5 September 2008
By dgirard on Friday 5 September 2008, 10:15 - Browser
Zviki Cohen
The main differentiator between JavaScript and other RIA technologies will be reduced to the visual complexity. Google are separating themselves from the herd by sticking with the clear and functional design approach. IMHO, it is a matter of personal preference. However, I will not be surprised to find future GWT
releases providing more visual enhancements out of the box. GWT can walk hand in hand with Chrome and we might expect future releases of GWT to be "Chrome optimized".
I'm not sure it will be that easy to have a GWT permutation optimized for Chrome.
Wednesday 3 September 2008
By dgirard on Wednesday 3 September 2008, 12:22 - Browser
I have done a micro benchmark to compare Chrome/Firefox 3.0/Firefox TraceMonkey (3.1) and IE.
| Algorithm | IE6 | FF3 | FF3.1 | Chrome | Comments |
| Computation for(i=0 to 10millions) result+=i; |
2800ms | 945ms | 40ms | 200-2000ms | Strange : with Chrome results are not stable, each time the bench is restarted (not reloaded) the result is different |
| Building a table : for(i=0 to 1000) addALineOnTopOfATable(); |
1900ms | 885ms | 480ms | 160ms | Chrome is faster |
| Moving an image : for(i=0 to 10000) moveTheImage(); |
1450ms | 5308ms | 912ms | 450ms | Chrome is faster |
Results are in milliseconds.
It was run on this machine (Windows XP SP2) :
By dgirard on Wednesday 3 September 2008, 09:29 - Browser
Ray :
The current browser wars make me feel like I'm watching the Fast and the Furious, and Google's new Chrome browser is like Nitrous Oxide for the web. As soon as I heard that ex-HotSpot guys were working on it, I knew it could be good, as they did a marvelous job with Self (a fully dynamic language), as well as Java, but how good?
Google Chrome smokes the competition on Chronoscope
Tuesday 2 September 2008
By dgirard on Tuesday 2 September 2008, 11:19 - Browser
Sundar Pichai
So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.
I think it is a very important news for the GWT community.
Monday 1 September 2008
By dgirard on Monday 1 September 2008, 23:12 - Browser
Philipp Lenssen
The browser will include a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8, built from scratch by a team in Denmark, and open-sourced as well so other browsers could include it. One aim of V8 was to speed up JavaScript performance in the browser, as it’s such an important component on the web today. Google also say they’re using a “multi-process design” which they say means “a bit more memory up front” but over time also “less memory bloat.” When web pages or plug-ins do use a lot of memory, you can spot them in Chrome’s task manager, “placing blame where blame belongs.”
Google Chrome, Google’s Browser Project
