On 04/02/2011 11:42, Richard Porter wrote:
The NetSurf web site says:
"Efficiency lies at the heart of the NetSurf engine, allowing it to
outwit the heavyweights of the web browser world. The NetSurf team
continue to squeeze more speed out of their code."
I've been doing one or two comparisons on a 300MHz Kinetic RiscPC
running OS 6.16.
Test 1 - following a link to near the bottom of a thumbnail index.
[snip]
Test 2 - following a link to the latest forum post from the "top 10"
latest posts page.
[snip]
How about URLs so people can see what those pages contain? Such as CCS
elements which the older browsers will just ignore.
Now obviously there's a big advantage in coding in assembler for a
specific processor family rather than using C and making the code
portable
Coding in assembler is a big disadvantage for any sizeable amount of
code. You wont find any modern web browser written in assembler, it
would be insane.
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David J. Ruck
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