I'm curious how much better Safari battery life is if you disable Flash in Chrome. http://blog.getbatterybox.com/which-browser-is-the-most-energy-efficient-chrome-vs-safari-vs-firefox/ …
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Replying to @benthompson
@benthompson safari battery life would be the same. You mean chrome? I would expect it to be some better, but not close the gap completely1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Replying to @benthompson
@benthompson flash is certainly egregious, but a while back Chrome made decisions to optimize performance, prefetch, etc - comes at a cost3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @johnolilly
@johnolilly@benthompson Not prefetch. WebKit and Safari started prefetching the same time as Chrome. It was done in WebKit before the fork.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @xeenon
@xeenon@benthompson yes, that’s right - they also aggressively instantiate objects, etc.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @johnolilly
@johnolilly@benthompson Sounds like the wrong kind of optimization. Safari isn’t slow by any measure, and we still get good battery life.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @xeenon
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@johnolilly@benthompson:@xeenon is right. This is all scheduling and graphics stack. OS X power use in graphics is hard to reason about.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
@johnolilly @benthompson @xeenon : no worries! 140 char is too small and this stuff is hard; we only recently got visibility
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