Test Driving Google Chrome 64-bit

Fresh from the oven, Google Chrome 64bit is now available in their stable channel release.

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Was it better? Oh yes it is.

For example, the browser seems more zippy when browsing data intensive pages like say a the newsfeed on Facebook.

Performance aside, the first thing that caught my attention is the slight difference in rendering of text, it’s as if some anti-aliasing was applied. Fortunately it doesn’t make the text look soft. This

Google today released Chrome version 37 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Among the changes are better-looking fonts on Windows and a revamped password manager;

source : thenextweb

Yes, I know that’s for Version 37 of 32-bit version but it seems like the 64-bit version is doing just that as well and it’s no surprise. The font does look better, take it as a bonus from the added speed. I’ve not encountered any stability issues so far.

As for memory consumption, well it’s yet another Chrome. The key advantage for the 64-bit version is as described below.

For example, the VP9 codec that’s used in High Definition YouTube videos shows a 15 percent improvement in decoding performance. Stability measurements from people opted into our Canary, Dev and Beta 64-bit channels confirm that 64-bit rendering engines are almost twice as stable as 32-bit engines when handling typical web content. Finally, on 64-bit, our defense in depth security mitigations such as Partition Alloc are able to far more effectively defend against vulnerabilities that rely on controlling the memory layout of objects.

source : thenextweb

😀 Sorry I’ve no idea what benchmarks are they referring to so drop me a message on my Facebook page if you know which benchmark I could use to test the above.

Nevertheless out of curiosity I did the Octane 2.0 test and below are the results, the first image is for 32-bit Chrome.

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I’m quite surprised with the results, I see some the numbers change. Some numbers were raised while others dropped, I was expecting an overall increase in the numbers as the 64-bit version is said to be able to take advantage of the latest processor and compiler optimizations. 🙂

Overall, I’m pleased with the 64-bit setup. Kudos to Google!