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WebKit Gives Konqueror a Speed Boost (Past Firefox)

Posted by timothy on from the fightin'-words-in-a-kit dept.

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."

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  1. Re:How important are JavaScript times? by arose · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How important are JavaScript times to the overall speed of rendering pages?

    That is the wrong question. How important is Javascript speed for advanced web applications and HTML5 games?

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  2. Re:How important are JavaScript times? by phantomfive · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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  3. Re:How important are JavaScript times? by tepples · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.