Bug 121660

Summary:	DoYouEvenBench: Add tests WebKit is slow on so WebKit is not fastest when we start optimizing
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa>
Component:	Tools / Tests	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	Normal	CC:	andersca, barraclough, benjamin, darin, fpizlo, ggaren, kling, koivisto, syoichi
Priority:	P2
Version:	528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified

Description Ryosuke Niwa 2013-09-19 23:26:11 PDT

On the current DoYouEvenBench, WebKit turns out to be the fastest engine on the average:

Nightly build of WebKit: 6682 ms
Firefox 23.0.1: 7158 ms
Chrome 29.0.1547.76:  8290 ms

This defeats the whole point of creating a DOM benchmark to optimize for.  We need to find & add more demo apps to mitigate the fact WebKit is so damn fast.

Comment 1 Benjamin Poulain 2013-09-20 00:35:17 PDT

God damnit, we should stop doing such a good job optimizing WebKit :)

Maybe you could consider:
-Gaming frameworks? (https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/, Box2D, LimeJS) 
-Mobile frameworks? (http://jquerymobile.com/)
-Charting frameworks? (http://raphaeljs.com/, http://livedocs.dojotoolkit.org/dojox/charting).
-Various Polyfills (Mozilla Brick?). The interesting part is, it would show if a native implementation bring much benefits to the browsers implementing it.

All of them have demos. Maybe the demos can be made into something useful for performance tracking?

Comment 2 Ryosuke Niwa 2013-09-20 18:32:28 PDT

Firefox 24 beats us!

Firefox 24: 5991.2 ms

Comment 3 Ryosuke Niwa 2013-09-24 16:45:47 PDT

Firefox 24 is faster than Nightly build of WebKit. The problem solved!