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Google Quietly Posts Big JavaScript Engine Update

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the keep-adding-cylinders dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google has updated the Chrome JavaScript engine from version 2.5 to 3.0, which apparently results in some big performance jumps. ConceivablyTech has run some benchmarks on two different PCs and posted charts showing that the latest nightly builds are up to 100% faster than the Chrome browsers with the JavaScript version 2.5 (which would be all currently published Chrome 8 and 9 variants). Especially V8 and Kraken seem to benefit from the upgrade, while Google has now at least on some system the fastest Sunspider browser again."

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  1. !quietly by yincrash · · Score: 4, Informative

    this was part of their big chrome os announcement. i would say that is the opposite of quietly

  2. Re:100%! OMG by adisakp · · Score: 4, Informative

    Can we come up with a standard way to convey the concept of speedup people? I have a feeling that they meant twice as fast. 100% faster would mean it finished instantaneously, which might be true if the benchmark was all marked as dead code... Oh, this is about google, not MS. My bad.

    The article is correct: 100% faster is twice as fast. 100% less time would be instanenous.

    Say I drive from point A to point B and it takes 10 minutes. Now I repeat the route but I drive 100% faster -- the results is it only takes 5 minutes; I have doubled my speed and halved my driving time.

  3. Re:The Browser Wars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    No.

    "The browser war continues"
    -or-
    "The browser wars continue"

    Either would be fine, but "The browser wars continues" is certainly not proper English grammar.

    Mod me as troll or whatever makes you feel better about yourself, but it doesn't make it any less true.