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Next-Gen JavaScript Interpreter Speeds Up WebKit

Posted by timothy on from the zippity-zappity dept.

JavaScript is everywhere these days. Now WebKit, the framework behind (among others) Safari and Safari Mobile, as well as the yet-unreleased Android, is getting a new JavaScript engine called Squirrelfish, which the developers claim provides massive speedups over the previous one. The current iteration of the engine is "just the beginning," they claim; in the near future, six planned optimizations should bring even greater speed. With JavaScript surviving as a Web-page mainstay despite many early gripes, and now integral to some low-powered mobile devices, this may mean many fewer wasted seconds in the world.

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  1. Re:Nothing can beat Opera's dev team by fo0bar · · Score: 0, Troll

    If opera dev's team can't be beaten then they must have a ultrafast version hidden somewhere, because the public versions, including 9.5 betas, are already slower than firefox 3 and webkit on many benchmarks

    You say that now, but thanks to the AWESOME POWER OF CLOSED SOURCE, the next version of Opera will be unbeatable!