So it begins

We got our first result tonight! We've been examining how to speed up various browser components, and, getting bored from slaving away on the hardest 10% of the page load CPU time, I sat down with Siu On tonight to improve the easiest 10%:


The experiment was very unscientific and our prototype was written in Python. Thus, while this chart shows a 6x speed gain for the component, plugging in our version would do little: our sequential 100-200 line Python version was 5x slower than Firefox's C++ version.