Just tried to improve the speed for BXE a little bit (tweaking here and there) and did a very simple benchmark on Firebird 0.7 vs. Mozilla 1.4 on Mac OS X 10.2 (G4/1GHz). Firebird does not only feel snappier, it really is faster. I only tested, how long it takes to generate the “real” XML document out of the editor, there is no UI-drawing involved
in that, just traversing nodes and transforming them.
These are avg. figures over some runs:
Firebird: ~180ms
Mozilla: ~230ms
Judge for yourself ;)
Update:
– Dell Inspiron 4000 / PIII/700MHz / Linux 2.4.19 / Debian Sid : Firebird: ~180ms, Mozilla: ~190ms
– PIV/1.8GHz / Windows XP: Firebird: ~70ms, Mozilla ~75ms
Ok, the differences on the other platforms are not that big ;)