Thursday, September 04, 2008

An independent benchmark of JS engines

An independent benchmarking result is posted today revealed the fact that in a close-to-real-world usage test, Chrome's V8 arrived at the 6th place ahead only the poor IE6's engine. This is totally opposite to the result provided by Google when benchmarking using their own tests.

This is interesting!

(Please note that even with JIT turned ON in FF 3.1b the performance was not improved. This is just because the test concentrates mostly on DOM manipulation, which is much used in real world applications, but the current TraceMonkey doesn't do any JIT for DOM calls.)