Re:How Chrome Changed the Web Overnight
by mdasen on Thursday September 04, 2008 @04:59PM
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The thing is that it is NOT an order of magnitude faster than other javascript engines in production.
The Dromaeo test suite shows the production Safari 3.1.2 on Windows beats Chrome. Wow, Safari before the huge JS upgrade beating Chrome on the Windows platform! The SunSpider suite shows Chrome to be around 40% faster than Safari and 25% faster than Firefox 3, but on par with Safari 4.0 and only a tad faster than Firefox 3.1.
In fact, the only thing that shows V8 as being so amazing is Google's own test which is basically a lot of recursion (akin to Microsoft's surveys that show people love Vista).
Google has a good product, but it isn't an order of magnitude better than what exists today and is on par with what is coming in the future. Heck, pull a nightly of the new Mozilla TraceMonkey engine and you'll see that TraceMonkey handily beats V8 (after 2 months of development rather than 2 years). Oh, and Chrome isn't in production.
Different processes will be game changing. V8 just won't be.
The Dromaeo test suite shows the production Safari 3.1.2 on Windows beats Chrome. Wow, Safari before the huge JS upgrade beating Chrome on the Windows platform! The SunSpider suite shows Chrome to be around 40% faster than Safari and 25% faster than Firefox 3, but on par with Safari 4.0 and only a tad faster than Firefox 3.1.
In fact, the only thing that shows V8 as being so amazing is Google's own test which is basically a lot of recursion (akin to Microsoft's surveys that show people love Vista).
Google has a good product, but it isn't an order of magnitude better than what exists today and is on par with what is coming in the future. Heck, pull a nightly of the new Mozilla TraceMonkey engine and you'll see that TraceMonkey handily beats V8 (after 2 months of development rather than 2 years). Oh, and Chrome isn't in production.
Different processes will be game changing. V8 just won't be.