{"id":28376,"date":"2016-11-04T18:01:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T10:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=28376"},"modified":"2023-04-06T21:59:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T13:59:29","slug":"chrome-profile-guided-optimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/chrome-profile-guided-optimization\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a Speed Boost on Chrome with Profile Guided Optimization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s upcoming Chrome build, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/chrome-55-updates\/\">Chrome 55<\/a>, will come with some improvements to make Google\u2019s browser less of a resource hog. In the meantime, the company has implemented a something else to speed up Chrome: <strong>Profile Guided Optimization<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Originally a feature found on Microsoft\u2019s Visual Studio developer tools, Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) is a technology that tracks user interaction with an application.<\/p>\n<p>Some functions are used more, others less. With PGO, <strong>functions that are used more often will be optimized for speed<\/strong>, while <strong>less-used functions<\/strong> are optimized with <strong>smaller, slightly slower code<\/strong>. The result is a smaller overall code footprint and a faster Chrome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"recommended_top\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Read Also:<\/strong>\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/chrome-boost-browsing-speed\/\">11 Ways to Speed Up Google Chrome<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Optimizations are also done to the memory location of the code as PGO would move rarely-used functions away from those that are frequently-used. This results in better management of the CPU instruction cache by avoiding caching of less-used code, resulting in better performance.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">PGO impact on load and startup time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tr>\n<td>New tab page load time<\/td>\n<td>14.8% faster<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Page load (time to first paint)<\/td>\n<td>5.9% faster<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Startup time<\/td>\n<td>16.8% faster<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In terms of numbers, a Chrome build that has PGO would be <strong>15% faster<\/strong> overall on Windows compared to a Chrome build without PGO.<\/p>\n<p>For those who are fans of better performing Chrome browsers, Build 53 is what you\u2019re looking for if you use the 64-bit version of Chrome. 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