{"id":192,"date":"2013-12-08T22:08:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T22:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2013-12-08T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T22:10:06","slug":"chrome-for-windows-sunspider-gets-way-better-results-than-mac-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/chrome-for-windows-sunspider-gets-way-better-results-than-mac-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome for Windows Sunspider gets way better results than Mac Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-1174467220610867\"; \/* BARleaderboard *\/ google_ad_slot = \"3394062843\"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\n\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I just did a SunSpider 1.0.2 benchmark test on my MacBook Air 2012 and my HP Envy 15 (purchased in April of 2010). Using the exact same browser but different operating systems, I got radically different SunSpider results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MacBook Air (2012):\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/mac-chrome-sunspider.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>HP Envy 15 laptop (2010):\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/windows-chrome-sunspider.png\" \/><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-1174467220610867\"; \/* BARleaderboard *\/ google_ad_slot = \"3394062843\"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; \/\/ ]]><span id=\"mce_marker\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\"><\/span><span id=\"__caret\">_<\/span>\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\nThere is a huge difference in speed (about 4x)! From my investigation, it's due to better utilization of hardware acceleration for Chrome windows. \n\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/116162036529120103602?rel=author\">Brian Roizen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just did a SunSpider 1.0.2 benchmark test on my MacBook Air 2012 and my HP Envy 15 (purchased in April of 2010). Using the exact same browser but different operating systems, I got radically different SunSpider results. MacBook Air (2012):\u00a0 HP Envy 15 laptop (2010):\u00a0 By Brian Roizen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianroizen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}