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Firefox 4's JavaScript Now Faster Than Chrome's
An anonymous reader writes "Firefox 4's JavaScript engine is now faster than V8 (used in Chrome) and Nitro (used in Safari) in the SunSpider benchmark on x86. On Mozilla's test system Nitro completes the benchmark in 369.7 milliseconds, V8 in 356.5 milliseconds, and Firefox 4's TraceMonkey and JaegerMonkey combination in 350.3 milliseconds. Conceivably Tech has a brief rundown of some benchmark figures from their test system obtained with the latest JS preview build of Firefox 4: 'Our AMD Phenom X6-based Dell XPS 7100 PC completed the Sunspider test with the latest Firefox JS (4.0 b8-pre) build in 478.6 ms this morning, while Chrome 8.0.560.0 clocked in at 589.8 ms.' On x86-64 Nitro still has the lead over V8 and TraceMonkey+JaegerMonkey in the SunSpider benchmark."
How many software projects have come up with a Beta 8!!! in their version 4?!!
This alone is an indication that the software engineering process in Mozilla.org specially Firefox has gone out of control. The software standards have degraded to a record low and open source with large numbers of out of organization comitters is showing its disadvantages.
I used FF4 until Beta 6 and I should say it was the most torturous software test experience I have had in my 25 years of experience in software industry. I guess I will never again beta test any Mozilla software.