Chrome 18 arrives with hardware-accelerated Canvas

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  • jeblis wrote:
    I'm impressed. Open a new ars link in a background tab, rendered before I can switch.

    Whatever you're experiencing, it's not the new functionality referenced in the article, that's not the kind of content that's being accelerated and Ars doesn't use the Canvas element in their pages.

    The Canvas element is not for standard page content, it's a specialized element for generating dynamic or procedural bitmaps, for things like a HTML5 image editor or game, things that may be too intensive or complex to display otherwise, hence the acceleration.

    Chrome's been able to accelerate standard page content for ages but the functionality is behind a flag
    (about:flags > GPU compositing on all pages > Enable for anyone who wants to try).
    Liquid Snake X wrote:

    Chrome gets pretty buggy when I do that (some things on the page don't display right or aren't clickable like they're supposed to be). But, that might be due to the core i5 2520M's Intel HD3000 GPU and or its drivers (latest, Win7 x64). Haven't tried it with another GPU.
    Fish bowl:

    IE 10 - 550 fishes on auto, 60 FPS, no rendering issues
    Chrome 18 - 1 fish on auto, 5 FPS, rendering issues (pink water)
    Firefox 11 - 1 fish on auto, 3 FPS, rendering issues (pink water)

    Similar results for other tests, like irish spring ... rishSpring

    or fireflies:

    Beta fish test works fine in Chrome, 60FPS, better than Firefox with 23FPS. ... etaFishIE/

    Overall, I'll stick to IE 10 for regular browsing, with Chrome as a backup for sites that don't support IE. And Firefox only at work for testing when developing web UIs.
    Beta is 60fps for me, again in FF11 on Windows 7 64. It would probably help if people posting benchmark scores told us about their graphics hardware and drivers, since we all seem to be getting different results on hardware acceleration.
    DaveKT wrote:
    What I don't like about Chrome is under-the-hood real tweaking still doesn't seem possible.
    For example, I want to move all the temp and cache stuff off my SSD and on to one of my HDs that I mostly use for all temp stuff, this stops the sort of cache-disk thrashing of my SSD lowering it's performance over just a few weeks.
    With Chrome installed and used a lot my SSD loses it's performance after just 2 weeks, I then have to do a backup, do a secure wipe, then put the backup back to get back the performance. With Firefox, I just move the cache folder to the HD temp folder and rarely lose SSD performance.

    If anyone knows if it's possible to move Chrome's cache folder then please post a solution, I would be most grateful. If this isn't possible, then I do have to question as to why Google doesn't allow this since Chrome's caching seems so aggressive and the constant writes are not good for my SSD.

    Tried Chrome Portable yet?. It's made for running off a USB flash drive. Takes a few days for them to update it though, and you lose Google's auto-update functionality
    daemonios wrote:
    Another step towards a world of browser-only, platform-agnostic apps? :p

    Misterboy wrote:
    duluca wrote:
    IE9 stills beats it at the Fish Bowl test. 750 fish ~44fps on IE9 and ~28fps on Chrome 18.

    I get the exact same fps in the Fish Bowl Test on Chrome 18 and IE 9: 1000 fish, 39-41 fps for each browser.

    You're doing it wrong?

    No really, I'm asking. I know nothing about this test. I just googled it because I was curious. Same results for each browser.

    -Edit- Update: Chrome 18 seems noticeably "faster" to me. Rendering? Dunno. But it's clearly faster in some respect.

    Why would he be doing it wrong? He just reported results. I'm a Chrome user myself and got similar results, and when I used auto mode (from what I could see, it fills the fish tank until it can barely maintain 60 fps) I got ~300 fish for Chrome and ~710 for IE9 (on Win7 x64). Of course, the test may be optimized for IE, or vice versa, but that doesn't mean that users are "doing it wrong" if they get non-standard results.

    Um? Did you notice the question mark? It looks like this --> ? You might have also noticed the paragraph after the tongue in cheek question in which I explain the tongue in cheek question. Reading comprehension is a terrific skill.

    Point your nerd rage somewhere else.
    Does this change effect the Intel/Nvidia battery-saving graphics card switching for Macbook Pro's?
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