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0 pointsrl35y ago0 comments

My experience in daily use of Firefox post-Servo is that all page loads have essentially been instantaneous. This is of course subjective based in part on hardware, so I'm not disputing your assessment.

As far as I'm aware, Servo is at the bleeding edge of performance under the hood. Its hybrid glyph rendering system for example is state-of-the-art.

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Miraste5y ago· 2 in thread

I'm no browser architect--I don't know how the rendering engines compare, and of course it depends on the site and the extensions used. I did just time some popular websites, and confirmed my impressions. For example, nytimes.com gives

0.5s on Safari with Adguard

1.6s on Chrome with uBlock Origin

2.5s on Firefox with uBlock Origin

which is pretty representative.

foota5y ago

Have you tried it without ublock out of curiosity?

Miraste5y ago

Without uBlock it's Chrome 2s, Firefox 3s.

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vhbit5y ago

some bits "born for Servo" are integrated into Firefox, but that's far away from "post-Servo"

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