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Meego flies in benchmark test
UPCOMING CONTENDER operating system Meego has beaten Android 2.2 in a Javascript benchmark test.
Tests run by independent benching site Carrypad confirmed that Google's open source OS took a licking. The benchmark was the Sunspider Javascript test. This is a processor intensive test that measures how quickly applications get displayed in a web browser.
In the testing the outfit used early Meego code and the latest Firefox browser on an Intel "Moorestown" Aava prototype smartphone. The Meego setup ran the Sunspider Javascript test in 4,215ms while Android 2.2 took 5,765ms.
The test was set up in response to a test of Android 2.0 versus Apple's IOS4 operating system. Two days ago, Android fans were delighted that it beat Apple's latest OS and hardware in the same speed test.
Using a Nexus One and an Iphone 4, the Android community team trounced the Iphone snail's crawl of 10,902ms. We're sure Apple will say that the Javascript tests aren't optimised for IOS4 environments. But in the meantime, owners of smartphones running Android can just gloat. µ
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Sorry, but this is not a fairplay test...
1.5GHz x86 CISC CPU vs. 1GHz ARM RISC CPU???? Come on, you can do better than that! Not fair and entirely different platforms. This is like comparing a GPU with a CPU...Moorestown is a SoC (Sistem on a chip) with 500MHz more. Wait until dual core ARM and 1.5GHz Snapdragon....
MeeGo is slower than Android BTW. Let's see your ARM device when Moorestown does under 2s with Android 2.2.
Let me get this straight: a 1.5GHz Atom is only 37% faster than a 1GHz Qualcomm ARM core? Ie. an old ARM core easily keeps up with the latest and greatest but not yet released Intel core running at a much higher frequency. Now imagine how it compares with the next generation dual core 1.2-2GHz ARM cores. I don't think "flies" is quite the right word here...
"UPCOMING CONTENDER operating system Meego has beaten Android 2.2 in a Javascript benchmark test."
This statement is complete BS, at best. If for no other reason, the results are skewed beyond belief comparing an INTEL prototype smartphone, instead of a production model against the competition. And if INTEL couldn't tweak their own INTEL device incorporating their own INTEL Moorestown CPU, as Brian K. pointed out, then you can also add the fact that Meego is a recent union of INTEL's own Moblin OS with Maemo. Hmmm...maybe this test is a little biased in favor of INTEL, no? Of course, it is just a single test.
I'm just glad that you also reported that aPple's iPhlaw 4 got pummelled in a true apples-to-aPples (pardon the intentional pun) OS contest!
And BTW, I'm not an Android fanboi, yet. I'm still nursing my trusty old Windows Mobile 6.0 powered HTC smartphone along. It still has at least equivalent functionality to the iPhlaw 4, except that my phone's antenna actually works. I can hold the phone however I like in either hand or both hands without signal loss. It almost never drops calls and it's not limited in functionality by someone like his uNholiness Steve Jobs with his super-ego interfering with the user experience.
"Note: Article title is a tounge-in-cheek reference to a recent ARSTechnica article. See below for the real story. It’s actually all about the browser engine and platform, not the OS."
and goes on to describe the platform as one running in netbooks, not phones?
Perhaps Meego did "flew" faster than Android due to using Intel's Moorestown CPU vs. an ARM CPU?