amiga vs atari netsurf

[chris]

That video is from 2011, so I'm not sure how directly comparable it is.
Fetching and page layout doesn't seem any quicker.

Page drawing looks quicker, but that might be an illusion.  Scrolling is quick but it's probably rendering the entire page in memory rather than drawing it "JIT".

You can compare the frontend code if you'd like to look for optimisations/differences.

[chris]

if you look again at those videos, you'll see that when the user click on some link, or enter address in location bar, the browser just react faster, it start fetching and loading the page almost immediately, while on amiga if doing the same, netsurf seems to wait a while doing nothing before it finally decide to do something.

I don't see any delay here?  There was a bug I fixed which might have caused some pausing, maybe you're not using the latest version?

here i'm just guessing, but, i think atari too have to be using sdl for their netsurf port.

It has various font engines, but the plotters are native, not SDL.

I suggest you check the latest Atari build with the latest OS3 one, on similar hardware personally, rather than through a five year old video.  It's then possible to determine whether any aspects are faster or slower and investigate why that might be.

[chris]

I do think Netsurf is the future for 68k browsing.  Though from what I can see, the latest port to the Atari is 2.9, vs 3.5 for the Amiga.  Hell, even Debian doesn't have a newer package than 3.2.

http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/atari/

There have been no release builds because there is no maintainer, so the state is unknown.