NetSurf 3.6 web browser released!

[utri007]

I made some benchmarking an results were weird? First there is no memory issue, or it is very minimal.

Test was made just refreshing amigaworld.net FrontPage. 060 and 040 tells CPU, next numbers are secons. Kb free ram is how much my 040/32mb ram system had free fast ram.

First test was amigaworld.net, no big diffrences.

CPU / SEC 060  17    14,7   15,0   15,3   15,6   14,6   14,8
CPU / SEC 040  21,9 19,9   18,7   18,9   19,5   19,1   19,2
kb free ram       3921         3882  3864            3888

Next test was amiga.org, here I got weird results. After some time my 040 is faster or equal with my 060. So slab allocator gives huge benefit to 68040 cpu, but not for 68060 cpu? After first load rendering time is less than half?

Test was made refreshing amiga.org FrontPage and last two sec values are amiga.org forums and amigaworld.  Last two kb values are free ram amiga.org forums and amigaworl.net.

amiga.org                                                                          
CPU / SEC 060 30,9  24,3  23,8  22,9   25,8   23,5    22,0     27,8      15.1      
CPU / SEC 040 65,1  25,7  26,3  22,4   24,5   24,5    24,2     34,5      19,3
kb free ram     945            927   873    907                          966       1257

Both Amigas has has Orinoco Silver Wlan card and Genesis TCP/IP stack. No reboot between tests.

[utri007]

Reproduced test so that my 4G router/wlan access point was near of Amigas, results were same. There is also a pattern, 5th refresh is slower than previous and 6th faster again.

How can slab allocator be so much faster with 68040 than 68060?

[utri007]

060 clocked at ? I get 9,2/5,9 for amigaworld and 13,4/7,5 for amiga.org with my vampire, it seems alot faster than a 060 with netsurf

Vampire is 3.6x faster than my 060

[utri007]

Double checked with wired lan. 68040 benefits more slab allocator than 68060. After twice as slow first load, it halves a download / rendering time, so that is actually same speed than 68060 or even faster. With same logic with 68060 second load of amiga.org should take less than 15 seconds. (now about 25 sec).

id test against a locally saved page to at least eliminate few of these unknown variables. but i have said that before..

My internet connection is 20/20mb. Key is repeating tests, to see that every test gives about same results. I don't try to make science of this.

[utri007]

Tested quikly and seems that border problems and gui refresh problem is now gone??

Now my 68040 machine "officially" renders amiga.org faster than my 68060 machine.

Amiga.org is rendered 29 seconds with 68040 ,  and 31 seconds with 68060. Reloading page and both renders it 23 seconds. Restarted browser and amiga.org was loaded 27 seonds with 68040 and 29 seconds with 68060.

Amigaworld.net is still loaded faster with 68060 15 seconds, and 68040 20seconds.

I haven't had problems restarting browser,except that first version wich has working java.

Restarted browser some 6-7 times, no problems with it.

[utri007]

I don't know what you mean by "border problems".

When resizing or / and movin Netsurf, window borders used to disapper bottom / left / right.

[utri007]

Thanks again

[utri007]

If I try to go https://google.fi it just says can't fetch.

If I try to answer to this thread wit Netsurf it gives assertion error and can't find utf8

Is it so that it tries to use true type font, maybe speficied true type font used on this site?

I don't notice any difference in performance generally.

[utri007]

I haven't ever had that quit crash.