Google planning 60x faster Chrome 7 to hit back at IE9 beta

SlackerITGuy · 20 Sep 2010

... The web search giant is currently readying Chrome 7 which it claims will be 60 times faster than Chrome 6. 2D graphics performance and canvas acceleration is now available in trunk and canary builds of Chrome 7. "This system picks the best graphics API to use on each OS that Chromium supports: Windows XP/Vista/7, Mac OS and Linux", wrote James Robinson, Software Engineer at Google...

Neowin.net - Google planning 60x faster Chrome 7 to hit back at IE9 beta

SledgeDG · 20 Sep 2010

Not that I complain....but if that is really possible...why hasn't it been implemented already?
It's not like they all of a sudden invented a new programming language with extended capabilities.

-DG

Lemur · 20 Sep 2010

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium....tion-and-webgl

SlackerITGuy · 20 Sep 2010

SledgeDG said:

Not that I complain....but if that is really possible...why hasn't it been implemented already?
It's not like they all of a sudden invented a new programming language with extended capabilities.

-DG

Because hardware acceleration on browsers (Direct2D) is something extremely new and somewhat unpolished to some degree, that's why it's only available on Beta builds, whether it's IE, Chrome, Firefox, etc.

Lemur · 20 Sep 2010

SlackerITGuy said:

SledgeDG said:

Not that I complain....but if that is really possible...why hasn't it been implemented already?
It's not like they all of a sudden invented a new programming language with extended capabilities.

-DG

Because hardware acceleration on browsers (Direct2D) is something extremely new and somewhat unpolished to some degree, that's why it's only available on Beta builds, whether it's IE, Chrome, Firefox, etc.

I have found pre-builds still have a lot of extra code in them. Often they are better (and slightly buggier) than the previous version, but streamlined and fully tested code is faster and more stable.