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Comparing Browser JavaScript Performance

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lining-'em-up dept.

Thwomp writes "Over at Coding Horror Jeff Atwood has an interesting writeup on JavaScript performance in the big four browsers. He used WebKit's newly announced SunSpider to produce the results. If a probable anomaly in the IE7 results is overlooked, Firefox 2 is the slowest of the bunch. Atwood has also benchmarked the latest Firefox Beta, and its performance seems to be improved significantly."

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  1. Hmmm by ubrgeek · · Score: 4, Funny

    > if a probable anomaly in the IE7 results is overlooked

    Like what? It didn't crash the system or it actually launched ;)

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  2. Ooh ooh let me guess by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 4, Funny

    With NoScript, Firefox's performance easily soars above the rest?

  3. Vista + ie7 took hours! by mseidl · · Score: 5, Funny

    <html>
    <body>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    var i=0
    for (i=0;i<=10;i++)
    {
    document.write.UAC("Cancel or Allow?");
    document.prompt("Yes, No, Maybe?);
    }
    </script>
    </table>
    </body>
    </html>
  4. lynx beats them all, 17 ms to pass test by ls671 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I tried the same benchmark with my browser and it seems to beat them all, only 17 ms to pass the test !!!

    ~$ time lynx -dump http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider-driver.html
    SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark (In Progress...)

    real 0m0.017s
    user 0m0.001s
    sys 0m0.004s
    ~$

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  5. Re:And the winner: Linux by tcdk · · Score: 2, Funny

    I only have opera running on my WinMobile Dell Axim v51x PDA and it's currently running, it seems to be 30-40 times slower than the desktop, so I'll not be waiting before I post...


    Okay, it wasn't that bad - it finished in 317.8s. So 15-20 times slower. I was actually surpriced that it managed to run to the end.
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  6. Re:It's Flash by cheater512 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seamonkey + Flash on my old P3 laptop is fine.

    If by fine you mean freaking bloody slow.
    Flash designers wouldnt know speed if it slapped them with a large trout.

    YouTube is good. It can handle a video pretty well (occasional frame dropping).
    Ads and many other things will reduce the computer to a crawl instantly.

  7. Re:Opera by ed.markovich · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looks like they are finally getting their javascript act together. After being a sore point for so many years, a working javascript in Opera will be welcome. I am just curious as to what you're talking about. I've been using Opera for a while now and have not noticed it having any JS issues.

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