Page: http://performance.toast.net
Host: Xenial Technology (loading picture 754.928 bytes)
Machine: Pegasos II G4 7447 1Ghz, Altivec
OS: MorphOS 2.5 (reg)
Network: Elisa, Finland ADSL 24 Mb/s in, 1Mb out

Test results : Kb/s

via_rhinepci.device / mv6436x_eth.device
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Aweb (APL Lite 3.5.08 beta /MorphOS)
1326 / 1128
1329 / 1185
1270 / 1140
1380 / 1229

Ibrowse 2.4 (68020 ver. reg)
3081 / 3683
3638 / 3775
3630 / 3431
3511 / 3595
3471 / 3471

OWB V1.9 (no svg /MorphOS)
818 / 891
933 / 510
830 / 674
1029 / 865
663 / 975

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Machine: AMD Athlon 64 3500+
OS: XP Pro

Firefox 3.6.8 / MS Explorer (V8.0.6001.18702)
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2255 / 2222
4299 / 2234
4299 / 2234
4292 / 4295
4302 / 4247

Bad test, because it doesn't only measure transfer speed, but display speed. And since OWB displays the file progressively (and has quite an overhead on gfx side), it explains why IB is faster, even if it's not faster at pure transfer speed.

Hey, dont take this personal!
I prefer OWB in all cases on Morphos and it's my default browser.
I would like to thank you for the best browser ever !!

Even the test is not fair, it gives a result.
I still think it's the download time it measures and not the display time.

I was just running this test after noticing that all videos on youtube were lagging in OWB while not on my PC.


Edit; Using Ibrowse, the test result page came before the whole picture was rendered.


[ Edited by jalla on 2010/8/23 1:58 ]

[ Edited by jalla on 2010/8/23 2:13 ]

I don't take it personal, but it still tell you why it's not a good test. :)
With a test that doesn't involve image decoding that way, you'd have about 3000 or 4000 too.
Try this one: http://speedtest.edpnet.be/speedtest4.php
I get 3000kbps in OWB and 3100kbps in IBrowse (and my network is a bit busy, currently).



And about youtube, it depends what you mean with lag. If you mean an abnormally slow transfer speed, it's clearly youtube's fault (it also happens on any machine here, and it depends on the server itself). If you mean slow refresh, it's cairo's bottleneck, but you can bypass it by using overlay output (it takes about 35% cpu to play a youtube video in overlay, against 100% in original mode).


[ Edited by Fab on 2010/8/23 0:44 ]

[ Edited by Fab on 2010/8/23 0:52 ]

Ok, the results are different now by using http://speedtest.edpnet.be/speedtest4.php
BTW: The two last one is from a different machine but still on the same net.

OWB /IBrowse /Aweb /Explorer /Firefox
2196 / 1548 / 1045 /8653 / 8622
1616 /1440 / 1327 /8657 / 8011
1217 / 3169 / 1611 /8942 / 8711
1245 / 1456 / 1779 /8624 / 8632
1309 / 2110 / 1430 /8587 / 8613

About youtube and what I mean with lag is when the video stops to get more buffer to continue. It is not related to youtube or my network since the very same video runs smoothly on the pc machine. Even when streaming the very same video in Tubexx (morphos) it runs smoothly, so thats why I expect it's about OWB.

Ok, that's more reasonable that way, though still a bit slow on your side, compared to the PC.

But it's also known amitcp isn't exactly optimally suited for inet speed, these days. With a local test, you'd still probably reach 8MB/s or so, though (with a plain HTTP/FTP transfer).
To be noted OWB would need some "setenv OWB_POLLTIME 1" to get optimal speed there (otherwise it won't go higher than 1.5MB/s with the default value of 10ms (webkit default)).
I also read removing "DEBUG" argument from netstack could help, but i haven't verified it yet. Increasing TCP send/recv window could also help a bit.

Regarding Youtube, i don't share the same experience as you. When youtube acts slow, it acts slow on any machine/software here (be it on windows/linux/morphos or wget/tubexx/owb/firefox/...). And it can act slow as hell (2kB/s) and fast again (>300kB/s) the minute after, too.
Also, your test on the PC implies you ask Youtube to serve a particular format (flv), which may very well be prioritized over the ones served for HTML5 (mp4). But i really hope it's not happening that way. :)

I set the OWB_POLLTIME to 1 and removed the DEBUG from the netstack.
Then rebooted (first time in 3 days so I guess my ram was pretty fragmented)
Now OWB and Ibrowse gets about 4000 Kbps !

Thanks!

@Fab

OT: You don't happen to play StarCraft II by any chance?

I just killed someone named FAB in an online game there...

@takemehomegrandma

Nope, i don't have any powerful enough machine to play it. :)
But i used to play starcraft quite a lot at university between lessons. :)