From: Bert Hickman
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:27:41 -0500
Subject: Re: [TSSP] F A N T C: - It's NEW! - and needs some TSSP input
Hi Paul,
I ran the test suite on Netscape 7. The tests showed that most of the
operations were about the same, or better, than Netscape 4 or 6. Some
(sorting a large array) were MUCH faster in N7. The only one that
appeared to be markedly worse was:
N7 N4 N6
== == ==
getting value of a form field 472 40 335 uSec
N7 apparently doesn't give many java script options, and none for
debugging or script execution priority.
Best regards,
-- Bert --
--
Bert Hickman
Stoneridge Engineering
"Electromagically" (TM) Shrunken Coins!
http://www.teslamania.com
Paul wrote:
> Perhaps those with NS6 and NS7 having trouble with
> running the geotc test script, could try running the
> javascript test page at
>
> http://www.umsu.de/jsperf/index2.php
>
> According to the typical results shown, NS6 isn't any worse
> than NS4. Put in your cpu speed and RAM size and run the
> tests. At the end your results appear in a nice table
> alongside the standard values. See if any show as particularly
> bad.
>
> There seem to be a few speed issues with NS6 & 7. String
> concatenation, accessing document objects for form values, etc.
> eg
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117611
>
> But none appear to be serious enough to really slow it down by
> factors of tens or hundreds. Perhaps the above tests will
> shed some light.
>
> Is there an option in NS6/7 to enable/disable javascript
> debugging? If so, need to make sure debugging is off.
> Perhaps there's an option that sets script execution priority.
>
> Oh well, looking on the bright side, we don't seem to be
> having any trouble with the program itself, and the x7
> user interface is IMO much easier to grasp.
> --
> Paul Nicholson,
> --
>
Maintainer Paul Nicholson, paul@abelian.demon.co.uk.