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Canvas on Firefox is hardware accelerated (at least on Windows), so it's really fast. I don't have Chrome installed, but I'm pretty sure it chokes on the FishIE
by sid0 15y ago
Canvas on Firefox is hardware accelerated (at least on Windows), so it's really fast. I don't have Chrome installed, but I'm pretty sure it chokes on the FishIETank benchmark with 1000 fish: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/FishIETank/Default.html http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/FishIETank/Def.... Firefox on the other hand easily gets 60 fps with those many fish.
- sapphirecat 15y ago> Canvas on Firefox is hardware accelerated (at least on Windows), so it's really fast. If your video drivers aren't blacklisted, after I found out by whining about the lack of speed with hwaccel--which wasn't actually active. Check it out at the bottom of the super secret "about:support" URL.
- jasonkester 15y agoExcellent example. On my system, Chrome12 will do 100 fish at 25-30 FPS, while FF5 chugs along at 7-10fps. Neither is particularly good, but the Chrome one is at least watchable.
- sid0 15y agoThat just means your Firefox isn't benefiting from GPU acceleration. It could either be because your OS or hardware doesn't support it or because your graphics drivers are out of date.
- jasonkester 15y agoThe reason why is unimportant. The end result is the same: terrible performance on Firefox, good performance on Chrome. It's not up to the end user to know or care why.
- sid0 15y agoTerrible on YOUR machine. On something like 45% (and increasing) of vista or win7 machines the story is the opposite.