Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

>>akyuu+(OP)
There was a time when Firefox felt a lot slower than Chromium, but for a few years now it's been close enough (even if still somewhat slower) to not bother me, while Firefox clearly offers superior functionality and much better performance under high load. The last time Chromium has felt attractive compared to Firefox was a really long time ago. Glad to see it moving in the right direction still.

>>seba_d+35
For me, Firefox performs better on Linux than on Windows.

>>Kholin+M9
This is true of a lot of things.

>>nateb2+lw
Windows does not fork processes as fast as Linux, although this is improved somewhat in the in the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Here is a somewhat foolish test with a shell script, that forks "/bin/true" 10 million times.

  C:\>busybox sh
  ~ $ echo 'x=10000000; while [ $x -gt 0 ]; do true; x=$((x-1)); done' > timetest
  ~ $ time sh timetest
  real    0m 46.86s
  user    0m 46.76s
  sys     0m 0.04s

Here is the same test with Debian's dash shell, one of the fastest:

  $ cat timetest
  x=10000000; while [ $x -gt 0 ]; do true; x=$((x-1)); done
  $ time dash timetest
  0m33.79s real     0m33.50s user     0m0.05s system

Not a great test, but there is quite a difference there.

zlacker