[Proteopedia] Chrome best for JSmol

[Eric Martz]

I have updated JSmol performance results in popular browsers. Chrome now 
runs JSmol fastest in both Windows and OS X.

Chrome now significantly out-performs Firefox, especially on Windows, 
where Chrome is ~2X faster at rotating a cartoon rendering.

Safari is now ~5X slower to rotate spacefill rendering than Chrome. This 
is true on both OS 10.14 and OS 10.10.

For smallish molecules (10,000 atoms or less) the differences between 
Chrome, Firefox and Safari will be minor. ~90% of entries in the PDB 
have <=10,000 atoms. With large JSmol's (~800 pixels square) and large 
molecules (my test molecule, 1g3i, has 45,000 atoms) you will definitely 
prefer Chrome.

Edge is ~5X slower than Chrome for all renderings. Internet Explorer 
remains unusably slow (10 to 30X slower) for JSmol.

Details:

http://proteopedia.org/w/JSmol/Rotation_Speeds

-Eric


Eric Martz, Professor Emeritus, Dept Microbiology
U Mass, Amherst -- Martz.MolviZ.Org <http://Martz.MolviZ.Org>

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