Just three months ago, the WebKit team announced SquirrelFish, a major revamp of our JavaScript engine featuring a high-performance bytecode interpreter.
I've run (in a Mac) the SunSpider benchmarks (again) and the results I
get with Webkit r36685 (SFX, the current -as of today- nightly build)
show that it's more than three times faster !
Here's the actual data. Click on the links to browse through the
detailed results :
The '~DOM benchmark' at http://preview.tinyurl.com/685oh2 , shows as
well an increased frame rate (+7.2fps): it went up from 32fps (in
Safari312) to 39.2 frames per second (average after 10000 loops). It
comes from the cljs thread # b56af3fcfc461f2 f (http://
groups.google.c om/group/comp.lang.javas cript/):
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