Chrome is Fast and Google likes to Show Off

[DemonWasp]

They went a little bit "MythBusters" on this one.

[Insectoid]

That was...creative. And entertaining.

[DemonWasp]

It was also probably complete lies and trickery. Assuming that page was served by a webserver somewhere, the latency was (minimum) 40ms round-trip. Figure a minimum of 2 cycles of round-trip (1 for the initial page, 1 for CSS/JS/images) and almost certainly more, and the page would take about 100ms to render, far more than the potato gun should have, for example. That's best-case.

These webpages were almost certainly served from local cache, in my opinion, which is going to be fast no matter your browser.

[rdrake]

I think the entire point is that their rendering engine is fast. I don't recall hearing them claim that they were serving these pages off some remote server.

[Insectoid]

Ads always exaggerate (or close enough) and this one was amusing enough for me to not mind.

[DtY]

rdrake @ Thu May 06, 2010 7:22 pm wrote:

I think the entire point is that their rendering engine is fast. I don't recall hearing them claim that they were serving these pages off some remote server.

This is definitely what they're going for, which is silly, because it's an open source rendering engine that's also used by Konqueror and Safari (to name the most popular).

But anyway, I'll still be using IE since in an independent study financed by Micro$oft, IE was found to have the fastest rendering engine.

[SNIPERDUDE]

DtY @ May 6th 2010, 7:41 pm wrote:

independent study financed by Micro$oft

Conflicting, no?

[DtY]

SNIPERDUDE @ Thu May 06, 2010 9:09 pm wrote:

DtY @ May 6th 2010, 7:41 pm wrote:

independent study financed by Micro$oft

Conflicting, no?

very much

[rdrake]

DtY @ Thu May 06, 2010 7:41 pm wrote:

Micro$oft

[USEC_OFFICER]

Should we even be surprised?

[SNIPERDUDE]

Independent studies financed by SNIPERDUDE seem to show favour in his kick-assery.

[BigBear]

It is all for publicity, even though this BETA version does bring some new features, that video didn't showcase them. I downloaded it because of this post so I guess it worked.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Independent stuides financed by USEC_OFFICER indicate a possible running gag.

[SNIPERDUDE]

What are the new features in Chrome anyways?

[USEC_OFFICER]

It runs fast. Very fast. (That's all I know.)