Friday, 17 May 2013

Re: Testing required: visited link performance

On Fri, 17 May 2013 13:06:07 +0100, Michael Drake wrote:

> It was originally implemented several years ago, but disabled since it had
> a detrimental effect on performance.

IIRC it took minutes to display even the Google homepage when this was
initially enabled. I'm happy to report it is not having any
perceivable impact on performance at all now.

System: SAM440EP (600MHz PowerPC)
URL file size: 50K

Site: http://www.google.co.uk
Build #1177: 0.6s
Build #1178: 0.6s

Site: http://news.google.co.uk
Build #1177: 6.6s
Build #1178: 6.8s

Site: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk
Build #1177: 5.1s
Build #1178: 5.2s

Site: http://www.netsurf-browser.org
Build #1177: 2.2s
Build #1178: 2.1s

The visited links don't display differently on Google because of the
annoying redirect links they use these days, which change on every
reload. It is visibly working on the NetSurf homepage however -
except for the Wakefield show link, where I think the initial URL
isn't being remembered by NetSurf, as the link redirects immediately
to http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/index.php

Chris

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