The people at Google knew the latest version of their Chrome browser rendered pages fast, but how fast?
A team which included experts in pyrotechnics, ballistics and Tesla coils set out to demonstrate the browser's rendering speed with a series of highly unconventional experiements.
The browser's performance is measured against a potato gun, lightning hitting a pirate ship and sound from a keytar which is channelled through a speaker and gooey red paint.
In more traditional terms, Google says the new beta "incorporates one of Chrome's most significant speed and performance increases to date, with 30% and 35% improvements on the V8 and Sunspider benchmarks over the previous beta channel release."
The post on YouTube noted there was a "super fast" 15Mbps internet connection in the studio, but added that any live internet connection introduced quite a bit of variability.
To run speed tests on page rendering times, they saved the pages locally and loaded from the local disk to reduce that variability.
