SpockMan02 wrote:I haven't spent a lot of time benchmarking, but it runs fine when I'm using it, and I value add-on support, a nice UI, and not Google over slightly faster page loading. I don't mean to lecture, but why be discouraged by a lower benchmark score if it works well (among other good traits)?
Well, you are lecturing, and I asked specifically for folks to abstain from that. I didn't write that the benchmarks were "lower", I wrote "less than encouraging", which also covers crash and do not run. It doesn't "work well" on OSX, thus this post.
Disclaimer: I have developed and benchmarked a
lot of software over the past 35 years. I used to care about milliseconds for a living. So, again, this is not a discussion of benchmarking per se.
PM on OSX appears visually sluggish in the real world (there can be many reasons for this), and the benchmarks that do run, suggest that this visual observation is accurate. Some of them don't even run, suggesting compatibility issues, and yes, some are quite slow relative to Safari (I tested FF previously, but FF is now problematic to benchmark now due to the "slow" detection (not even sure it can be disabled)).
PM, at least on Win, used to be a snappy performer relative to its competitors (PM came with me to the Mac when I quit working on Win machines). The OSX version appears to be suboptimal - YMMV - try taking a trip and reporting your experience.