Thought I’d never see the day when Firefox would match Chrome on Speedometer.
There’s also a few other benchmarks got a sizable boost. https://arewefastyet.com/
Thought I’d never see the day when Firefox would match Chrome on Speedometer.
There’s also a few other benchmarks got a sizable boost. https://arewefastyet.com/
Engineering doesn’t operate based on subjective feelings though.
I really don’t think what I said aligns with the point you’re trying to make. If I may be so bold in my assumptions, I think your web usage probably is closer to a grocery store run than to a rally race, which is perfectly fine, I am not casting any judgement. But a rally race demands a lot more out of a car and each component needs to be benchmarked and optimized in order to get that performance. In this case, improvements in those benchmarks directly correlate to how the car will operate in the field.
I guess the point that I am trying to make is that synthetic benchmarks matter more for some usecases compared to others, but to say they’re always just synthetic and not indicative of reality is being dismissive of other people’s usecases that are probably more performance oriented than yours.
I just said that I switched from Brave back to Firefox because I felt that performance has been improving recently. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that it just so happens to align with the recent benchmark improvements. And no, my add-ons have not changed.
@Molecular0079 I think we won’t get much farther than this.
I disagree. Engineering requires subjective feelings too, depending on what is being engineered off course. But that’s going too far now. My points are still valid and your replies are confirming, such as you feel a difference (you did not measure it, you feel see it), and I do not. That’s my point.
Engineering uses objective measurements and techniques to work towards a certain subjective feeling, but that’s the extent of where subjective feelings matter.
No, your point was that synthetic benchmarks are just synthetic and do not matter in reality. My point is that synthetic benchmarks matter a lot in some usecases, particularly in high performance oriented ones. These two statements are not the same, regardless of how many times you say they are.
@Molecular0079 You are wrong. Synthetic benchmarks do not represent the normal daily usage of users. I did not say the results are wrong and could not help in finding slow parts. But they are not indicative to what browser is faster than the other, because no single benchmark can answer than question. I think you don’t get what I’m saying here. As I said, I think we won’t get much farther than this. My statements are all correct.
The “synthetic benchmark” that OP mentions is simply a to-do list app written using different web frameworks, populated with some Todo items and then reloaded. This is done many times and then measured. I don’t know about you, but this seems pretty real world usecase to me.
Of course not, but a sum of many of what you call “synthetic” benchmarks will give an indication of which browser is faster.