Chromium faster on X11 than both Windows/MacOSX

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Tinuva

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Original link for reading this: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/1...Outperforms-Windows-and-Mac-Versions?from=rss

"In a curious contrast to conventional wisdom, there are reports of X11 Chromium being faster than Windows or Mac versions. In the thread titled 'Why is Linux Chrome so fast?,' a developer speculates that it is due to the use of X11 capabilities: 'On X-windows [sic], the renderer backingstores are managed by the X server, and the transport DIBs are also managed by the X server. So, we avoid a lot of memcpy costs incurred on Windows due to keeping the backingstores in main memory there.' Has the design of X11 withstood the test of time better than people tend to give it credit for?"
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This sparked me to try it out again. Personally I didn't think much of it after trying the 1st beta on windows, and I was much less inclined to try it via wine on nix.

However after this article I tried it again after downloading a RPM from Benkevan Blog.

Was I not surprised at just how well the Linux version runs!! It is a HUGE improvement over firefox's speed, is all I will say. I will miss some plugins for now but will get used to it, as I prefer the speed any day over a little bit of functionality...the irony I know.
 
Just a shame that there is no 64-bit version. The 64-bit RPM at the link, is just the 32-bit repackaged.
 
It is fast, but there are still a few bugs, I'll try it again on karmic maybe it's better.

But I really love how google have taken the linux port seriously.
 
Aqua_lung said:
It is fast, but there are still a few bugs, I'll try it again on karmic maybe it's better.

But I really love how google have taken the linux port seriously.
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So they should. With Chrome OS and Android, they have quite a vested interest.
 
Aqua_lung said:
It is fast, but there are still a few bugs, I'll try it again on karmic maybe it's better.

But I really love how google have taken the linux port seriously.
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What bugs specifically?

Personally I haven't experienced any bug yet, unless I missed something.
 
Nod said:
Just a shame that there is no 64-bit version. The 64-bit RPM at the link, is just the 32-bit repackaged.
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Not true. The RPM actually must have a 64bit built in it as the errors I get looks like this:

Code: 
[21551:21551:56864379029:ERROR:/usr/local/google/home/chrome-eng/b.64/slave/chrome-official-linux-64/build/src/chrome/common/temp_scaffolding_stubs.cc(232)] Not implemented reached in void MemoryDetails::StartFetch()

Also the actual real test:
Code: 
CORP\davidb@wadavid:~> file /opt/google/chrome/chrome
/opt/google/chrome/chrome: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
 
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I haven't tested it myself, only read some of the comments on the blog where the software are.
 
Tinuva said:
What bugs specifically?

Personally I haven't experienced any bug yet, unless I missed something.
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I don't remember exactly, think it was related to typing issues but it made me switch back to firefox, I'll try the latest though, maybe it's better.
 
Nod said:
Just a shame that there is no 64-bit version. The 64-bit RPM at the link, is just the 32-bit repackaged.
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Oh I see now what happened. The RPM on that page is a 32bit repackaged for 64bit OS, however if you take THIS rpm, its actually 64bit:
http://www.benkevan.com/upload/software/openSUSE/google-chrome-unstable-4.0.203.2-1.x86_64.rpm

Also it worked better. I however still had a hard time every time to get my Flash to work, which really sucked. So I loaded back the saved image of my Archlinux install on Laptop, did "yaourt -S google-chrome" and low and behold 64bit Chrome with Flash working out of the box =>

Chrome 3.x is not that nice, the 4.x developer version is 1000x better.
 
New version out, don't have it fro OpenSUSE yet but I do have it on my laptop which runs Archlinux.

Version 4.0.249.0 and it finally supports extensions!
First thing I installed was Ad block+ of coarse :)
 
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