5-15% on web content is significantly faster to me. Also, like many people, I mainly use my browser for visiting websites instead of running things like Octane, but obviously it would be nicer if Octane were faster too.
JSC is pretty well tuned for it, finding a 0.5% speedup is hard. So seeing 10% speedups is impressive and rare. Of course, it’s possible that they are just catching up so they found the low hanging fruit - but also possible that they can leapfrog JSC (I haven’t measured if this gets them there or not).
Thanks! We actually haven't really analyzed Speedometer (and most other benchmarks) yet with Warp so I expect this number to improve the coming months. The design seems to be holding up well and we're really excited about building on this.
Is it though? Would you even notice it?
If there was an already short processing action, e.g. 1 second, now it would be 850ms -- hardly noticable.
If there was some long processing action, say 5 minutes, now it would take 4 minutes and 25 seconds.
Hardly something to write home about in either case...
It's not like we don't have a yardstick for actually noticeable speed updates. Pre-JIT JS to JIT JS for example was a big several times speedup. PHP 6 vs PHP7 was several times as well (no JIT involved here, just other optimizations).
15% is only 'significant' in the context of an already heavily optimized program (which FF's JIT is). Not significant as in "the users will notice it".
We've had export / fx processing improvements in NLE programs or 3D rendering for example that saved weeks over a year. PHP 6 to 7 got several times faster in common use-case workloads. And so on...
Look at CPUs or the Internal Combustion Engine. After 120+ years, it still improves, but you're looking at single-digit percentage points if that.
I'm not aware of a lot of things that could magically improve browser performance, but if you do, you have a great opportunity for a unicorn startup.
Today you can buy relatively affordable cars with 2.0 liter engines pushing 300 or more horsepower and doing so with greater fuel efficiency than cars with much more modest output from ten or twenty years ago.
(admittedly some of the gains in efficiency have been obscured by increases in vehicle weight)
> when Warp landed:
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> - 20% on Win64 GDocs loadtime: https://mzl.la/3cp6dAs
> - 13% on Android Reddit SpeedIndex: https://mzl.la/2RUWdp8
> - 18% on pdfpaint: https://mzl.la/2HtXb9W
> - 8% on tp6 JS memory: https://mzl.la/3j2VwGb
> - 8% on damp (devtools perf): https://mzl.la/3kLbhSM
Sounds pretty significant to me