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Both chrome and firefox lag all over the place on a modern quad core box with 16GB of ram and hardware accelerated rendering on a 8GB r290. Most software might
by Tiksi 11y ago
Both chrome and firefox lag all over the place on a modern quad core box with 16GB of ram and hardware accelerated rendering on a 8GB r290. Most software might not be speed critical, but those few milliseconds not saved add up quickly, and performance should definitely be a goal of most (end user) software. I mean if you're only running the software on your own servers, then by all means ignore performance as much as you please if it's a worthwhile tradeoff for you. But please don't ignore speed when it comes to software other people have to run.
- zimpenfish 11y agoChrome and Firefox suffer from having to run other people's (likely unoptimised) software in their sandbox. You can optimise as much as you like but then John Q Madbugger comes along with their insane Javascript (not looking at Flickr here, no sir) and suddenly your performance is in the toilet.
- Tiksi 11y agoYeah, the bloatloads of javascript are probably the worst offenders of ignoring performance of software other people have to run, sometimes even reimplementing features the browser already has, just slower and worse (Listen Zendesk, my browser has been doing tabs just fine for a decade, implementing them in javascript and entirely hijacking normal browser navigation behavior doesn't make anything better for anyone). Thinking over it some more, browsers themselves were probably not a good piece of software to call out on performance considering how much optimization is actually done to increase their performance. The horrid things people do on top of them deserve all the blame they get though, and then some.
- zimpenfish 11y agoThe QNAP web interface implements a whole internal windowing system in Javascript. It is the stupidest dumbest nonsense I've seen for years and is blitheringly painful to use.