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> nobody really, really cared until Google did V8 Tamarin and Squirrelfish were benchmark battling before Chrome was publicly released. I think the current fo
by grayrest 16y ago
> nobody really, really cared until Google did V8
Tamarin and Squirrelfish were benchmark battling before Chrome was publicly released. I think the current focus on performance to be sparked by the CSS selector engine battle between the major JS frameworks.
- BrendanEich 16y agoSpiderMonkey (TraceMonkey in August 2008) was battling SquirrelFish (SquirrelFishExtreme in fall 2008) on untyped JS (Taramin did well only if you added type annotations). V8 was "first" only behind Google's firewall, until Chrome released in early September 2008.