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A browser benchmark that has your back: Robohornet

27 points by thisisblurry 14y ago

pav3l 14y ago
http://www.robohornet.org/ http://www.robohornet.org/ doesn't even load on IE7
kevingadd 14y ago
Nice to see getters/setters in there. Performance for them is absolutely abysmal in modern runtimes. :( EDIT: Is it my imagination or is it really difficult to find a link to RobotHornet itself in the OP?
- zellyn 14y ago
  Click the large image.
pohl 14y ago
Nice idea. It won't run on my iPad 2, though.
ojiikun 14y ago
Doesn't run that well on my android phone, since my browser has only 2 modes of pop-up handling: deny all and confirm each. In firefox-ESR on Win7-64 it seems to get stuck in one of the SVG tests, unless it's supposed to take an extraordinarily long time (I killed it after 15+ minutes). Neat idea, though. I love having a great go-to benchmark for web, so I have a good baseline for expectations when whipping up mobile sites.
nnethercote 14y ago
Oh god, just when web people were starting to understand how to create good benchmarks (https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2012/08/24/octane-minus-v8/ https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2012/08/24/octane-minus...), now we're going back to 1980s microbenchmark hell. Doesn't anyone read Hennessy and Patterson any more? The best benchmarks are real apps, not crappy little microbenchmarks that measure a single thing. (Can you hear that thud, thud, thud? It's the sound of me beating my head against my desk.)
- kevingadd 14y ago
  Some of the tests are indeed pretty awful. The canvas clearing test doesn't even draw anything, so it's literally the equivalent of benchmarking an empty for loop...
  - nnethercote 14y ago
    Superb! Also, they say "The current items that RoboHornet tests captures the major pain points of jQuery, Google Apps, Google Maps, Ember, Handlebars and Cappuccino" but one of the tests is "Calculating primes from 2 to N". Srsly. Hennessy and Patterson specifically mention the Sieve of Erastosthenes (a common prime number finding algorithm) as an example of a bad toy benchmark.
- jlebar 14y ago
  I filed a bug. https://github.com/robohornet/robohornet/issues/67 https://github.com/robohornet/robohornet/issues/67
frozenport 14y ago
How do browser benchmarks account for incorrectly drawn or spaced items. Could I write a browser that will ignore everything except the elapsed time measure?

27 points by thisisblurry 14y ago

pav3l 14y ago

http://www.robohornet.org/ http://www.robohornet.org/ doesn't even load on IE7

Nice to see getters/setters in there. Performance for them is absolutely abysmal in modern runtimes. :( EDIT: Is it my imagination or is it really difficult to find a link to RobotHornet itself in the OP?

zellyn 14y ago
Click the large image.

pohl 14y ago

Nice idea. It won't run on my iPad 2, though.

ojiikun 14y ago

Doesn't run that well on my android phone, since my browser has only 2 modes of pop-up handling: deny all and confirm each. In firefox-ESR on Win7-64 it seems to get stuck in one of the SVG tests, unless it's supposed to take an extraordinarily long time (I killed it after 15+ minutes). Neat idea, though. I love having a great go-to benchmark for web, so I have a good baseline for expectations when whipping up mobile sites.

nnethercote 14y ago

Oh god, just when web people were starting to understand how to create good benchmarks (https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2012/08/24/octane-minus-v8/ https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2012/08/24/octane-minus...), now we're going back to 1980s microbenchmark hell. Doesn't anyone read Hennessy and Patterson any more? The best benchmarks are real apps, not crappy little microbenchmarks that measure a single thing. (Can you hear that thud, thud, thud? It's the sound of me beating my head against my desk.)

kevingadd 14y ago
Some of the tests are indeed pretty awful. The canvas clearing test doesn't even draw anything, so it's literally the equivalent of benchmarking an empty for loop...
- nnethercote 14y ago
  Superb! Also, they say "The current items that RoboHornet tests captures the major pain points of jQuery, Google Apps, Google Maps, Ember, Handlebars and Cappuccino" but one of the tests is "Calculating primes from 2 to N". Srsly. Hennessy and Patterson specifically mention the Sieve of Erastosthenes (a common prime number finding algorithm) as an example of a bad toy benchmark.
jlebar 14y ago
I filed a bug. https://github.com/robohornet/robohornet/issues/67 https://github.com/robohornet/robohornet/issues/67

frozenport 14y ago

How do browser benchmarks account for incorrectly drawn or spaced items. Could I write a browser that will ignore everything except the elapsed time measure?