Iris and ZeroPain
4 posts, 3 voices
David Pitt (3386)
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On the Titanium the new version of Iris 11Jan22 was unable to fetch some sites that had been reachable with the previous Iris version. A convenient example was TechRadar which is on on the home page. Oddly, on the RPi400 TechRadar rendered normally. The difference is down to the ZeroPain module which was only installed on the Titanium. On removing ZeroPain TechRadar worked again. As confirmation installing ZeroPain on the RPi400 stopped TechRadar. This is for info, it is not a problem here. (I must say that Iris is an impressive performer.) |
Paolo Fabio Zaino (28)
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Indeed, I tested it against NetSurf and, with the sites I used for testing, Iris performed better than NetSurf all the times. :) |
Rick Murray (539)
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Yup. It fetches and renders this site lightning fast. Iris does struggle with intensive things, no doubt the use of the other three cores would help somewhat ;) however I did not on the simple stuff Iris not only outperformed NetSurf (by quite a lot), it held its own against Chrome on my S9 (which is, like, an eight core device easily outperforming a Pi). Sure, it slows down when given a hard task (but, again, single core and slowish processor) but what it does is it opens a door to things previously unthinkable on RISC OS. The FlightRadar24 issue? That was me. :) The first thing I tried was the most evilly complex site I could think of. I followed that up with Google Docs to edit a document. Went like treacle at…what speed is the Pi3B+?…as you can imagine but it worked. Let me back up and repeat it worked. |
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Paolo Fabio Zaino (28)
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Indeed! In my case I started to use Web Based IDEs they work on Iris, we technically could adapt one of those modern JS based IDEs and have a remote and distributed coding environment on RISC OS! :) Offtopic P.S.: I just noticed I have just passed my 1000 post on here (since I think 2007 or something like that), I guess I am slowly becoming social… XD |
