webgl matrix-library benchmarks

[Stephen Bannasch]

Greg Tavares has contributed many improvements to the webgl matrix library benchmark application:

  http://stepheneb.github.com/webgl-matrix-benchmarks/matrix_benchmark.html

The github repo: https://github.com/stepheneb/webgl-matrix-benchmarks

Major improvements:

* Added Google Closure

* updated glMatrix, EWGL, and tdl libraries

* each library runs in it's own iframe to not affect each other

Changes since March:

https://github.com/stepheneb/webgl-matrix-benchmarks/compare/d83c3919c2d76bec9cb66accdf566e79ee11b308...731f19f8f154261745642999cde1c136360d4a33

Here are some results testing the latest development versions of Chrome, FireFox, and Safari on my MacBook Pro, 10.6.7, 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7

Points I find interesting:

* How much faster the Closure matrix library runs on Chrome Canary

* The similarity of results comparing FireFox Nightly with Chrome Canary -- except for the Closure results

* how dreadfully slow Safari WebKit Nightly

Results reported in Millions of operations per second:

Google Chrome 14.0.789.0 canary

Minefield Nightly 7.0a1 (2011-06010)

Safari Nightly 5.0.5 (6533.21.1, r88432)