Firefox 3 runs faster on Linux+Wine than on Linux -- comparative to running on Windows

[Reece Dunn]

Hi,

For those not monitoring slashdot [1], there is an article [2] that is
comparing the Google V8 benchmark on Windows and Linux versions of
Firefox 3.

The result of this is that the Windows and Wine runs are pretty close
(241 vs 227) when compared to the Linux run (181) and Opera (155).

I wonder what the results are like on Firefox 3.1 with tracemonkey
enabled on Windows, Wine and Linux.

[1] http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/13/0058251
[2] http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-f...

- Reece

Firefox 3 runs faster on Linux+Wine than on Linux -- comparative to running on Windows

[Austin English]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For those not monitoring slashdot [1], there is an article [2] that is
> comparing the Google V8 benchmark on Windows and Linux versions of
> Firefox 3.
>
> The result of this is that the Windows and Wine runs are pretty close
> (241 vs 227) when compared to the Linux run (181) and Opera (155).
>
> I wonder what the results are like on Firefox 3.1 with tracemonkey
> enabled on Windows, Wine and Linux.
>
> [1] http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/13/0058251
> [2] http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-f...
>
> - Reece

Neat!

I've noticed it being a bit faster here as well. I have to use Wine +
Firefox to access one of my course's website, because it refuses to
work on Ubuntu + Firefox. Even user agent spoofing won't allow it to
work...

-- 
-Austin

Firefox 3 runs faster on Linux+Wine than on Linux -- comparative to running on Windows

[Zachary Goldberg]

2009/2/13 Austin English <austinenglish(a)gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > For those not monitoring slashdot [1], there is an article [2] that is
> > comparing the Google V8 benchmark on Windows and Linux versions of
> > Firefox 3.
> >
> > The result of this is that the Windows and Wine runs are pretty close
> > (241 vs 227) when compared to the Linux run (181) and Opera (155).
> >
> > I wonder what the results are like on Firefox 3.1 with tracemonkey
> > enabled on Windows, Wine and Linux.
> >
> > [1] http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/13/0058251
> > [2] http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-f...
> >
> > - Reece
>
> Neat!
>
> I've noticed it being a bit faster here as well. I have to use Wine +
> Firefox to access one of my course's website, because it refuses to
> work on Ubuntu + Firefox. Even user agent spoofing won't allow it to
> work...
>
> --
> -Austin

I love how there are even been users in response to that thread who
can verify...
Hm...
(/me does winetricks firefox3)...

Wine + FF3: 165
Native FF3: 149
Myth: Confirmed!

Firefox 3 runs faster on Linux+Wine than on Linux -- comparative to running on Windows

[Reece Dunn]

2009/2/13 Reece Dunn <msclrhd(a)googlemail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> For those not monitoring slashdot [1], there is an article [2] that is
> comparing the Google V8 benchmark on Windows and Linux versions of
> Firefox 3.
>
> The result of this is that the Windows and Wine runs are pretty close
> (241 vs 227) when compared to the Linux run (181) and Opera (155).
>
> I wonder what the results are like on Firefox 3.1 with tracemonkey
> enabled on Windows, Wine and Linux.
>
> [1] http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/13/0058251
> [2] http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-f...

As a follow up, I have been doing some testing of my own.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pCaFy3jQwNj5XFrxvcYJxPA&gid=3
shows the results for several different runs using different
optimisation options on gcc for wine. For linux, wine and for wine
optimised to better target the machine, I have taken the average of 3
runs. Because I overwrote my -O3 build of wine, I only have the one
data point.

What does this all mean? I'll leave that to the statisticians :D

NOTE: I haven't tried Profile Guided Optimisation on wine, nor have I
tried building Firefox 3 with optimisations on when running it on
native Linux... yet!

- Reece