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Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha Is Out, and It's Fast

Posted by kdawson on from the fat-lady-has-not-sung dept.

sgunhouse writes to let us know that, following a leaked internal build over the weekend, Opera Software has now released their official 10.5 pre-alpha. There are no Linux versions yet. And an anonymous reader adds, "Opera's 10.5 pre-alpha includes the Carakan JavaScript Engine. Benchmarks now show that Opera is competitive with Chrome, beating it in Sunspider and other tests. Safari, Firefox, and IE are all behind. This is still pre-alpha, so further speed gains should be expected."

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  1. Re:complete whats new and opinions by ShatteredArm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you hate karma whoring so much, why do you post anonymously? Worried about your karma?

  2. Re:complete whats new and opinions by piquadratCH · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It was in some Opera 10 beta that they improved the JS engine a lot, and now they've improved it over 7x again

    Makes you wonder what those guys from pypy could do for Python if they got some proper funding