Safari 3.1 to Bring Performance Boosts ("Snappier")

[brad.c]

Does that mean it'll be even "snappier" when 10.5.2 ships?

Snort.

Okay, I'm using it now. Would I need to go to a java-intensive site to see a noticeable performance improvement?

 

[kabunaru]

Any improvement we get is better than no improvement at all.

 

[NC MacGuy]

Wicked fast!! Not just 'snappier'... Even MapQuest one of my notoriously slow faves absolutely flies.

 

[writeous]

Who would have thought Safari's snaptensity could get any snappier.

 

[Sandfleaz]

Safari beta IS much snappier

Never thought there would be a real reason to type that..

Darn, beat me to it!
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[toxicbomber]

Darn, beat me to it!
.

I'll just say it again and it's real guys... get it! ITS AWESOME! SAFARI IS SNAPPIER!

 

[Lepton]

Put it in iPhone too

I hope some of this code also gets into the next iPhone software release. The JavaScript runs a tad sluggish on the phones.

 

[rendezvouscp]

Does anybody know what revision is shipped in Safari 3.1 Beta?

 

[QuarterSwede]

Now all they need to do is improve Flash, and by that I mean recycle it from garbage to shiny plugin.

 

[BornAgainMac]

The Snappier quotes never get old for me. I didn't expect Apple to touch Safari until 10.6.

 

[Morod]

Did someone say... Snappier?

Safari? Snappier? Sorta Snappier? Super Snappier? Even... Ultra Snappier? I will have to check this out! Thanks for the link!
Morod

 

[toxicbomber]

Now seriously why are people giving NEGATIVES to this?!?!?

 

[Eidorian]

Time to start using WebKit again.

 

[henry.oswald]

does everyone feel its snappier? feels the very similar to me......

 

[stockcerts]

I'm a little naive, but what is Webkit?

 

[djgamble]

You tried re-sizing the windows with the beta? I heard that's snappier (j/k)

So I tried the test with webkit 30109 and I got some slightly better results; overall 3284ms on a MacBook Pro (2.33ghz).

Here's the detailed result:

http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider-results.html?%7B%223d-cube%22:%5B135,131,128,133,128%5D,%223d-morph%22:%5B139,140,139,138,139%5D,%223d-raytrace%22:%5B131,127,129,132,130%5D,%22access-binary-trees%22:%5B66,66,66,66,67%5D,%22access-fannkuch%22:%5B231,228,230,240,237%5D,%22access-nbody%22:%5B141,142,140,140,142%5D,%22access-nsieve%22:%5B62,61,58,57,64%5D,%22bitops-3bit-bits-in-byte%22:%5B66,64,67,66,66%5D,%22bitops-bits-in-byte%22:%5B98,96,100,96,95%5D,%22bitops-bitwise-and%22:%5B190,184,184,190,189%5D,%22bitops-nsieve-bits%22:%5B108,107,107,106,106%5D,%22controlflow-recursive%22:%5B90,89,89,93,89%5D,%22crypto-aes%22:%5B78,78,78,78,82%5D,%22crypto-md5%22:%5B82,83,82,80,79%5D,%22crypto-sha1%22:%5B79,78,82,78,80%5D,%22date-format-tofte%22:%5B133,133,134,131,133%5D,%22date-format-xparb%22:%5B147,148,148,151,148%5D,%22math-cordic%22:%5B175,178,180,173,175%5D,%22math-partial-sums%22:%5B206,205,200,206,205%5D,%22math-spectral-norm%22:%5B82,86,81,82,81%5D,%22regexp-dna%22:%5B198,196,205,198,200%5D,%22string-base64%22:%5B101,101,101,98,100%5D,%22string-fasta%22:%5B177,178,178,177,180%5D,%22string-tagcloud%22:%5B128,128,127,126,128%5D,%22string-unpack-code%22:%5B129,134,133,129,130%5D,%22string-validate-input%22:%5B118,114,118,120,114%5D%7D

 

[ksgant]

How about they actually DO something with Google...since they announced all this buddy-buddy stuff like a year ago with someone from Google coming out on stage and talking up how they're friends.

What I'm getting at is having something like Google Tool-bar built into Safari...or at least have it as an option. This is one of the main reasons why I still use Firefox and not Safari is because of Google Tool-bar.

Like instantly searching for images...or news....or search a site. Other aspects of Google Toolbar are right there in Safari like spell checking and form-filling...but just a search bar with Google isn't enough. And it doesn't even open up a fresh tab, just opens up right over the page your on.

That's another thing I love about Firefox, you can set it to always...and I mean ALWAYS open a tab instead of a new window. With Safari you have to Option-click or whatever if you want to make sure something opens in a new tab....if not it pops up a new Safari window. I hate that. I want one window and multiple tabs on my browser....and if some link wants to open a new window, it's automagically just taken to a new tab. Safari needs this...or again, at least the option.

 

[clevin]

1. It is not slow for me, actually just testing it some more it is silly fast.

when you click back/forward button, both firefox and opera read from cache, the page load normally finished in 1 sec, while safari/webkit seems still try to load something from internet, result in the slowness. You didn't have this problem?

 

[xUKHCx]

when you click back/forward button, both firefox and opera read from cache, the page load normally finished in 1 sec, while safari/webkit seems still try to load something from internet, result in the slowness. You didn't have this problem?

On this forum going back does as you describe (it is hardly slow though) but going forwards is lickety split. Going between this forum and another site it is all from cache and blazing, going between different sites it is blazing. So perhaps the way Webkit deals with VBulletin forums is different to firefox/opera but it seems to only be limited to this forum and going back.

Note: By blazing I mean fractions of seconds, too fast to guess.

 

[grappler]

Maybe they put some heavy optimization work into it for the iphone's benefit?

 

[clevin]

is this whole story about javascript? or this article also has some other speed boost of webkit regarding page loading, picture decoding, etc?

"Snappier" can't be only javscript related, can it?

 

[happydude]

All I care about is snappiness!!!

yeah, no doubt, man!! bring on the snappiness!!!

 

[xUKHCx]

is this whole story about javascript? or this article also has some other speed boost of webkit regarding page loading, picture decoding, etc?

"Snappier" can't be only javscript related, can it?

Check out the blog. And perhaps try out the latest build. I'm surprised you haven't done so already mr browser man.

 

[Rocketman]

You know you have been reading MacRumors too long when "Safari is snappier" graduates from poster fixations to thread headline on the front page.

Rocketman

 

[clevin]

Check out the blog. And perhaps try out the latest build. I'm surprised you haven't done so already mr browser man.

I read there already, thats why I asked since I couldn't find detailed info.

I did tried safari/webkit from time to time, I tried it about 1 week ago, most recently, as you know, there are too many things it doesn't fit me well. So far, those ms speed advantages aren't significant enough to overcome those inconveniences to me.