Aug
24
2008
I personally think the friendly rivalry between the open-source Webkit engine (which powers Safari, among other things) and Mozilla (the Gecko engine, actually) is one of the best things to happen to browser development in years. The constant one-upsmanship can only lead…
Mar
23
2008
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…
Mar
19
2008
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 3.1 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…
Jan
15
2008
Last December, I read Jeff Atwood’s write-up about SunSpider, a new Javascript benchmark created by the makers of WebKit/KHTML.
The world of Javascript is an interesting one right now; it seems like most major browsers are on the eve of a…