I recently performed some cursory Javascript benchmarks with the new version of Firefox and Safari; curious about performance, I decided to do some testing of 32-bit browsers against their 64-bit counterparts. On Windows Vista x64, the only two browsers so available…
Archive for the tag 'benchmarks'
Mar 21 2008
Linux 2.6 filesystem benchmarks
A recent Linux filesystem benchmark, using modern filesystems, takes a look at some hard numbers. Looks like JFS usually comes in on top.
Mar 19 2008
Firefox 3.0b4 vs. 2.0.0.12 Javascript benchmark

Continuing the tradition of my previous post about Safari, I thought I would revisit Firefox’s performance on the SunSpider benchmark.
Clearly, Firefox has also made drastic strides in its Javascript engine, which is an entirely new piece donated by Adobe (and…
Mar 18 2008
Safari 3.04 vs 3.1 Javascript benchmarks

Safari 3.1 has been released, bringing with it all the latest and great Webkit code. Even though the UI still sucks (at least on Windows; ever hear of native GUIs, Apple?)
I decided to benchmark the Javascript performance of the new Safari…