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Bubblemark update

By Alexey Gavrilov on April 16, 2008

Silverlight 2

I’ve been a out of this little project for a while, busy with things at Loudtalks and Metalink. I even haven’t had a chance to check out Silverlight 2.

Few people asked for it and I was about to go all the way through installing VS2008 but today I received a Silverlight 2 bubblemark port, implemented by Kevin Yang. On my machine it gets ~280 fps, which is 40% increase over 1.1. You can try it yourself here.

Bubblemark validity (correctly) questioned

I’m glad to see that more cross-RIA benchmarks appear these days.

Sean Christmann made the one, which is geared towards measuring complex UI performance. You can check it out here along with an explanation on why bubblemark is not particularly relevant for the task.

For me the value of bubblemark is actually more in education, than in measuring. You can take it and see, how things could be implemented in different platforms. Consider it a rich “hello world” for RIA, which shows the basics — text, graphics, animation, and interaction with the app from a webpage.

Some stats

Finally, I checked out website stats and here are some interesting numbers:

  1. The site was visited 105,000 times by 81,000 visitors
  2. Most users are from US and China
  3. The most requested demo is Silverlight 1.0 closely followed by Silverlight 1.1
  4. Microsoft was the most active “corporate user” of the site with over 2000 visits originating there
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5 Comments »

  1. Bubblemark looks interesting, but the Flex framerate seems awefully slow? I’d imagine it to be much faster?

    Anyway - my FireFox 2.0.0.13 browser has some serious issues rendering this page and I think I may know why:
    http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmetalinkltd.com%2F%3Fp%3D170

    J

    Comment by Jensa — April 17, 2008 @ 12:59 am

  2. Tests on my machine:
    IE 7.0:
    maximum fps=309 and average fps=298

    Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13:
    maximum fps=209 and average fps=196

    Comment by ASPa — April 17, 2008 @ 5:59 pm

  3. Thanks Alexy for making all this available
    (and Kevin for porting this to SL2)

    Spent 4 hours the other night trying to port the SL1.1 Bubblemark to SL2, with not a lot of progress.

    The source of the SL2 has a password on the zip file though, so I can’t see what Kevin did.

    I was getting between 343 and 355fps on this lowly Celeron duo 1.86ghz laptop in IE8 b1 with the SL2 test.

    Sean’s test looks very interesting - I hope in a year or two we’ll have a standardized suite of RIA benchmarks to compare and tweak.

    …Rodney

    Comment by Rodney Reid — April 21, 2008 @ 8:15 am

  4. @Rodney: Thanks for pointing out that the file with the source was password protected. I re-uploaded it.

    Comment by Alex — April 21, 2008 @ 10:19 am

  5. translated to Managed JS.
    http://inomata.lolipop.jp/blogdata/bubblemark/

    Comment by matarillo — May 31, 2008 @ 3:16 am

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