Comments on: Android G1 and Palm Pre versus iPhone and BlackBerry Benchmarks

By: Kevin Riggle

Kevin Riggle — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:59:23 +0000

Hayden: I don’t know about you, but I use enough JavaScript-heavy sites that JS performance makes a big difference in how I perceive snappiness. I’ve actually just switched to the Google Chrome Linux beta on my EeePC largely because it handles JS significantly faster. (4.3x faster, when I ran the SpiderMonkey benchmark out of curiosity. Dunno how it compares on page-rendering speed.)

By: Hayden Schultz

Hayden Schultz — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:46:44 +0000

Web page rendering speed is what users experience. That’s probably more important. Don’t know how the iphone stacks up against the G1, but it’s apparently about 11% faster than the pre. That’s nice, but not a big deal (at least to me).

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/06/19/iphone_3g_s_faster_than_palm_pre_500k_sales_conservative.html

By: Hayden Schultz

Hayden Schultz — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:40:11 +0000

The Pre’s browser is also based on WebKit.

By: tibbetts

tibbetts — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:39:27 +0000

I’m told the Palm Pre browser is also WebKit: http://opensource.palm.com/packages.html

That makes BlackBerry the only non-WebKit phone under test. And makes the wide difference in performance between the WebKit phones all the more surprising.

By: Kevin Riggle

Kevin Riggle — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:34:36 +0000

The G1’s browser is based on WebKit as well (see eg. this article, so it’s not just possible benchmark bias at work here.

I wonder how long before the V8 JavaScript VM gets ported to Android.