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WebKit Gives Konqueror a Speed Boost (Past Firefox)
An anonymous reader writes "We always knew that WebKit is going to make Konqueror fast; but how much faster? Today we test that by putting Konqueror with KHTML through the SunSpider JavaScript Test and the then do the same with WebKit. To get an idea of how fast they are compared to other browsers, we also decided to put Firefox 4.0 Beta 2 through the tests."
That is the wrong question. How important is Javascript speed for advanced web applications and HTML5 games?
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
It's looking towards the future. HTML 5 is designed to replace Flash, but it can't do it if Javascript is slow. Performance is going to be an important differentiator in browsers, for how well they are able to run web apps (of course, if all browsers speed javascript up to roughly the same performance level, it won't be a differentiator).
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JaegerMonkey is making steady progress in improving performance and in a couple of months or so will likely be on par with Nitro and V8.
You mean, in several months Mozilla will be approaching the level that Google is at now. It's become pretty clear that Google is able to develop Chrome much faster than Mozilla is able to develop Firefox.
Also, Opera is faster than Mozilla as well, I'd like to see it included on that chart to compare with the others. Maybe even IE9, if it doesn't skew the Y-scale too much.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Javascript performance is largely irrelevant when rendering Wikipedia or Google.
MediaWiki sites such as Wikipedia don't use a lot of JavaScript, but Google does. Google Search's live suggestion was one of the first applications of the paradigm now called AJAX, and Gmail is an outright web app.