Pale Moon on a loaded Athlon XP PC: efficient? how much?

[kozaki]

Just thought i'd share our feedback coming after some testing. Video:
Desktop multi-tasking efficiency test on a 15 years old PC. Pale Moon 27.3 running on top of LibreOffice (Writer + Calc), PDF reader Evince, photos viewer and audio player on a 500 MB RAM Athlon XP @1.5Ghz (non SSE2 32bit single core).

Test notes
- System was just started, so all application are cold started (second part of the video shows a warm start)
- One of the two documents that are loaded before Pale Moon itself (with a 10 tabs session) is a 67 sheets spreadsheet
- Pale Moon allows to choose if SSE2 is required at the compilation step. Which is a great freedom (as in free software) for the users Packager Steven Pusser chose to not require it on its Debian/Antix/Ubuntu PPA/repositories; many thanks to him!
- Please forgive the video's various imperfections; we're quite busy and I just started using a new video editor (Flowblade). I'd greatly appreciate advices from anyone who has some knowledge in this field!

Dunno how Moonchild does that, but coming from that test it's clear he has code efficiency toward the top on his priority list! Thank you.

[Moonchild]

Dunno how Moonchild does that, but coming from that test it's clear he has code efficiency toward the top on his priority list! Thank you.

Pale Moon is an Open Source, Goanna-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows and Linux (with other operating systems in development), focusing on efficiency and ease of use. Make sure to get the most out of your browser!

d'uh?

[kozaki]

Hey Moonchild! So you believe or think I believe what guys write on web pages without testing? Ahem ^o^
Also it doesn't say *how* you achieve such an efficiency (the "real-world" one that brings so much more comfort than all the micro-synthetico lazy benchmarks all around).

Anyone knowing of a browser that can bring Mr and Ms Everybody what Pale Moon achieves in our real world test (linked above) on a 15 years old PC, name it please please please!

[Moonchild]

it doesn't say *how* you achieve such an efficiency

It's not possible to summarize the totality of the work done on Pale Moon in a few paragraphs, let alone sentences. Everything done contributes one way or another, from code changes to build config to trial&error testing...

[kozaki]

Correct me if I'm wrong now « Dunno how Moonchild does that » is a personal acknowledgement. Mean any other meaning would not be from myself ^^
Please note I made new Athlon XP Multitasking in 2017 screencast videos, this time after tuning (mostly the virtual memory stack and the IO scheduler) and with Lubuntu 16.04; will be uploaded by the end of this WE

[petrus]

kozaki: You may be happier with K-Meleon, a native win32 gecko based browser, very fast, the fastest even, and works on XP.

[kozaki]

@Petrus K-meleon is only available on Windows®, an OS that won't even *run* on the computer I'm testing its efficiency for « real-word » multi-tasking with efficient software (nor will it run efficiently and legally on the machines we've refurbishing). Thanks anyway! If you happen to test an antique PC with K-meleon for the same kind of multi-tasking I've done in the videos, please share the results; we'd happily read/watch them.