{"id":842,"date":"2009-11-18T00:05:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T04:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2009-11-18T00:05:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T04:05:36","slug":"javascript-benchmarks-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Javascript Benchmarks — what?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I installed a beta version of the Google Chrome browser for Mac the other day. I forget just where I found it, but it was probably linked from something linked from MacHeist which Charley mentioned on his blog. At any rate, while looking through the Help page I ran across a page of Javascript benchmarks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When I looked at that page in Chrome, I got something like<\/p>\n

Score: 3696<\/p>\n

Richards: 3663<\/p>\n

Delta Blue: 3875<\/p>\n

Crypto: 3224<\/p>\n

RayTrace: 5585<\/p>\n

EarleyBoyer: 6534<\/p>\n

RegExp: 1026<\/p>\n

Splay: 5499<\/p>\n

The latest Safari, which I just downloaded from Apple Software Update, 4.0.4 (5531.21.10) has<\/p>\n

Score: 2068<\/p>\n

Richards: 2530<\/p>\n

DeltaBlue: 2154<\/p>\n

Crypto: 2154<\/p>\n

RayTrace: 3844<\/p>\n

EarleyBoyer: 3085<\/p>\n

RegExp: 1024<\/p>\n

Splay: 1134<\/p>\n

Firefox 3.5.5 shows<\/p>\n

Score: 318<\/p>\n

Richards: 1270<\/p>\n

DeltaBlue: 83.4<\/p>\n

Crypto: 784<\/p>\n

RayTrace: 189<\/p>\n

EarleyBoyer: 298<\/p>\n

RegExp: 178<\/p>\n

Splay: 400<\/p>\n

Does that mean that Chrome is about half again as fast at processing Javascript as Safari, and ten times as fast as Firefox??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I installed a beta version of the Google Chrome browser for Mac the other day. I forget just where I found it, but it was probably linked from something linked from MacHeist which Charley mentioned on his blog. At any rate, while looking through the Help page I ran across a page of Javascript benchmarks. … <\/p>\n

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