28Apr/090
Firefox 3.5 beta 4 released – benchmarked
The next release of the immensely popular Firefox was initially versioned as FF 3.1, and now re badged as 3.5. After 3.1 beta 3, now comes 3.5 beta 4 and here is a glimpse of the performance numbers. Tests run on a macbook with 2.4ghz core2duo, 2gb ram and Mac OS X 10.5.6. All addons were disabled.
FF 3.1b3
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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 1476.2ms +/- 3.8%
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3d: 221.6ms +/- 11.5%
cube: 74.8ms +/- 8.7%
morph: 54.6ms +/- 31.4%
raytrace: 92.2ms +/- 4.5%
access: 215.8ms +/- 21.6%
binary-trees: 48.6ms +/- 3.9%
fannkuch: 60.8ms +/- 8.7%
nbody: 27.0ms +/- 7.3%
nsieve: 79.4ms +/- 59.2%
bitops: 46.4ms +/- 10.1%
3bit-bits-in-byte: 1.6ms +/- 42.6%
bits-in-byte: 11.6ms +/- 50.6%
bitwise-and: 2.4ms +/- 28.4%
nsieve-bits: 30.8ms +/- 7.8%
controlflow: 35.6ms +/- 3.1%
recursive: 35.6ms +/- 3.1%
crypto: 154.2ms +/- 4.9%
aes: 114.8ms +/- 7.9%
md5: 27.0ms +/- 11.7%
sha1: 12.4ms +/- 22.0%
date: 216.8ms +/- 3.4%
format-tofte: 94.2ms +/- 6.1%
format-xparb: 122.6ms +/- 3.1%
math: 43.6ms +/- 5.9%
cordic: 20.0ms +/- 4.4%
partial-sums: 14.4ms +/- 4.7%
spectral-norm: 9.2ms +/- 30.8%
regexp: 71.2ms +/- 4.0%
dna: 71.2ms +/- 4.0%
string: 471.0ms +/- 1.3%
base64: 26.8ms +/- 24.6%
fasta: 97.4ms +/- 4.3%
tagcloud: 114.0ms +/- 4.0%
unpack-code: 176.6ms +/- 0.8%
validate-input: 56.2ms +/- 2.4%
FF 3.5b4
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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 1209.4ms +/- 1.3%
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3d: 181.0ms +/- 3.1%
cube: 55.2ms +/- 6.2%
morph: 33.6ms +/- 21.7%
raytrace: 92.2ms +/- 5.9%
access: 154.0ms +/- 2.0%
binary-trees: 50.4ms +/- 7.5%
fannkuch: 61.6ms +/- 5.6%
nbody: 28.4ms +/- 6.6%
nsieve: 13.6ms +/- 5.0%
bitops: 40.4ms +/- 3.5%
3bit-bits-in-byte: 1.6ms +/- 42.6%
bits-in-byte: 9.2ms +/- 6.0%
bitwise-and: 3.2ms +/- 17.4%
nsieve-bits: 26.4ms +/- 4.2%
controlflow: 37.2ms +/- 4.4%
recursive: 37.2ms +/- 4.4%
crypto: 78.0ms +/- 6.3%
aes: 46.0ms +/- 8.1%
md5: 23.6ms +/- 20.9%
sha1: 8.4ms +/- 22.4%
date: 182.0ms +/- 8.0%
format-tofte: 100.0ms +/- 12.7%
format-xparb: 82.0ms +/- 4.7%
math: 41.0ms +/- 4.8%
cordic: 19.6ms +/- 5.7%
partial-sums: 13.8ms +/- 7.5%
spectral-norm: 7.6ms +/- 14.6%
regexp: 78.0ms +/- 9.0%
dna: 78.0ms +/- 9.0%
string: 417.8ms +/- 1.1%
base64: 23.2ms +/- 11.6%
fasta: 94.4ms +/- 1.8%
tagcloud: 115.0ms +/- 3.1%
unpack-code: 143.2ms +/- 2.4%
validate-input: 42.0ms +/- 4.7%
So there, its faster by almost 270 points, which is almost 18%. So far the next release seems to be very good indeed.