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The "Compiling Javascript" loader takes way too long (at least on my system) to not give any indication as to how long I will wait or whether it's still doing anything. At least a "this might take up to X minutes".

Demo itself ran halfway ok, clicking on 'Benchmark' (which I had to guess was in the upper pulldown) immediately froze everything for me (Firefox on Kubuntu).

Still: I do appreciate a demo that even kinda-sorta works on gnu/linux.



> The "Compiling Javascript" loader takes way too long (at least on my system)

It is actually both downloading and compiling during that time, and probably spending far more time in the download.

It would be nicer if the text said "retrieving code" as opposed to "compiling code" at that point.

edit: looks like the demo site was just updated, the message is better now :)


I've found it works almost flawlessly on ArchLinux 64bit with the standard Firefox package. Only one minor issue with the flag in the wind going all over the place, but that's probably the fault of open source radeon driver.

It is very refreshing to see something cutting edge work on linux.


>>Still: I do appreciate a demo that even kinda-sorta works on gnu/linux.

I'm using Firefox 20 on Ubuntu 12.04/amd64 and everything works flawlessly.




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