Though I’m not the sort of person who believes that native 64-bit compilations of programs will automagically make them perform faster or better, I do like to keep an eye on the state of the art, since I was an early adopter of native 64-bit OSes (I’ve been using 64-bit Linux since about Fedora Core [...]
Every so often, it’s nice to take a look at the state of Javascript performance among the various browsers. Though misleading, it’s become something of a truism that “browser performance” is just a nice euphemism for “Javascript performance,” since any website doing anything interesting is basically leveraging Javascript to do it. What’s come up since [...]
I’m a big fan of 7-Zip. It isn’t the best-looking application ever written, but that could be because its creator, Igor Pavlov, is concerned much more with its compression methods than its interface. 7-Zip has its own container format, but more important is the LZMA compression algorithm that Igor wrote and put into the public [...]
FLAC is a cross-platform codec, but when it comes to Windows, one has a pretty wide range of compiles. Some are more optimized than others. I first got the idea for this benchmark when I stumbled upon a native 64-bit FLAC executable for Windows. Curious, I did a quick and dirty test against the canonical [...]
I recently performed some cursory Javascript benchmarks with the new version of Firefox and Safari; curious about performance, I decided to do some testing of 32-bit browsers against their 64-bit counterparts. On Windows Vista x64, the only two browsers so available to me are Internet Explorer 7 and a recent nightly build of Firefox 3. [...]
A recent Linux filesystem benchmark, using modern filesystems, takes a look at some hard numbers. Looks like JFS usually comes in on top.
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