Paper Info
Title
Is the Web ready for in-car infotainment? A framework for browser performance tests suited for embedded vehicle hardware
Abstract
After Web applications have successfully found their way to PCs, smartphones and tablets, they are on the verge to be used on in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems. One of the often claimed drawbacks of Web applications is their low performance in conjunction with limited resources. We have created a benchmark framework to evaluate the performance of JavaScript in comparison to native code. The framework is designed to take the resource constraints of IVI systems into account. We conclude that general calculation tasks in JavaScript are on the average two to four times slower than native compiled counterparts on embedded vehicle hardware. The factor is independent from the allowed resource limits for each calculation. Using new features for Web applications (e.g. local storage functionality) or making frequent use of recursions there is a significant performance drop in JavaScript. In these cases native code runs up to 10 times faster than their counterparts in JavaScript.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/WSE.2012.6320530
WSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
in-car infotainment,embedded vehicle hardware,browser performance test,limited resource,significant performance drop,benchmark framework,resource constraint,ivi system,cases native code,native code,web application,general calculation task,low performance,entertainment,java,internet,embedded systems
Computer science,Web application,Computer hardware,Benchmark (computing),Rich Internet application,JavaScript,The Internet,World Wide Web,Unobtrusive JavaScript,Machine code,Java,Operating system,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2160-6153
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simon Isenberg1282.74
Matthias Goebl2526.30
Uwe Baumgarten34811.35