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... at what? Page rendering? Javascript? Download speeds? What? I'm sure folks struggling with dial up modems will LOVE to hear web pages will now load 60x fa

by pbhogan 16y ago

... at what? Page rendering? Javascript? Download speeds? What? I'm sure folks struggling with dial up modems will LOVE to hear web pages will now load 60x faster. </sarcasm>

sushi 16y ago
RTFA that new GPU acceleration advances in the upcoming version 7 are achieving speeds 60 times faster than in version 6
- mrduncan 16y ago
  That still doesn't explain what is faster, only how it's faster. Based on the GPU acceleration bit, I'd assume it's page rendering though.
  - pixelbath 16y ago
    "rapid advances in Chrome's 2D graphics performance" I'd assume it's the 2D graphics performance.
    - _delirium 16y ago
      A very specific subset of 2d graphics performance it seems: 2d animation using certain kinds of transforms. Rendering large/complex SVGs isn't getting 60x faster.
  - hackermom 16y ago
    And this is just one part of page rendering. This part may already be neglectable, representing fractions of a second, drowning in the parsing and structuring of the output done prior to actually rendering it. To me, all of this is just windbagging and vacuous marketing - just like the (almost entirely) pointless Javascript boasting.
- danpker 16y ago
  It still doesn't say what exactly. I doubt they have a 60 times speed increase in everything
js2 16y ago
See http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/unleashing-gpu-acceleration-on-web.html http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/unleashing-gpu-acceleration... The 60x increase is in two of the demos from the "IE9 Platform Preview Test Drive 2D canvas demos" found here - http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
- heinel 16y ago
  I think the point is that the article itself is not making sense, not the news it is trying to report. When I read the article I also thought about just normal browsing page load times. That is already so fast that a 60x increase is hardly noticeable. That just makes the news trivial and the chromium team look like freakish geeks with nothing better to do than crunching numbers that only a machine can read. That is until I looked at the demo video, which I missed on the article and only found about here. I can see that, particularly with that photo wall and the painter thing, snappiness is what would make them work.

by pbhogan 16y ago

... at what? Page rendering? Javascript? Download speeds? What? I'm sure folks struggling with dial up modems will LOVE to hear web pages will now load 60x faster. </sarcasm>

sushi 16y ago

RTFA that new GPU acceleration advances in the upcoming version 7 are achieving speeds 60 times faster than in version 6

mrduncan 16y ago
That still doesn't explain what is faster, only how it's faster. Based on the GPU acceleration bit, I'd assume it's page rendering though.
- pixelbath 16y ago
  "rapid advances in Chrome's 2D graphics performance" I'd assume it's the 2D graphics performance.
  - _delirium 16y ago
    A very specific subset of 2d graphics performance it seems: 2d animation using certain kinds of transforms. Rendering large/complex SVGs isn't getting 60x faster.
- hackermom 16y ago
  And this is just one part of page rendering. This part may already be neglectable, representing fractions of a second, drowning in the parsing and structuring of the output done prior to actually rendering it. To me, all of this is just windbagging and vacuous marketing - just like the (almost entirely) pointless Javascript boasting.
danpker 16y ago
It still doesn't say what exactly. I doubt they have a 60 times speed increase in everything

js2 16y ago

See http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/unleashing-gpu-acceleration-on-web.html http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/unleashing-gpu-acceleration... The 60x increase is in two of the demos from the "IE9 Platform Preview Test Drive 2D canvas demos" found here - http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

heinel 16y ago
I think the point is that the article itself is not making sense, not the news it is trying to report. When I read the article I also thought about just normal browsing page load times. That is already so fast that a 60x increase is hardly noticeable. That just makes the news trivial and the chromium team look like freakish geeks with nothing better to do than crunching numbers that only a machine can read. That is until I looked at the demo video, which I missed on the article and only found about here. I can see that, particularly with that photo wall and the painter thing, snappiness is what would make them work.