After reading about the new JavaScript VM in Google Chrome (called V8) I was wondering how it would stack up against the new JS engines from Mozilla (TraceMonkey) and WebKit (SquirrelFish). I ran 3 tests across all the browsers, including IE8, and here are the results.
Setup:
- Chrome [Build 1583 - 0.2.149.27]
- FireFox 3.1 Nightly [1.9.1b1pre/200809020331]
- w/ javascript.options.jit.* set to true except in the SunSpider tests, where jit.content was set to false because it crashes. - WebKit Nightly [r36012]
- Internet Explorer 8 [IE8 v8.0.6001.18241]
- I doubt numbers are accurate, asked me once for Chrome tests if I wanted to stop the unresponsive script, about 50x for Dromaeo - Windows XP SP3, AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 2GB RAM
- Restart each browser after every test
- SunSpider, V8 BenchMark, Dromaeo
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