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It's fast now because a bunch of mega-corps (Google, Apple, Microsoft before dropping the ball) put a huge investment in making JavaScript interpreters fast.
by tasogare 5y ago
It's fast now because a bunch of mega-corps (Google, Apple, Microsoft before dropping the ball) put a huge investment in making JavaScript interpreters fast.
- codyswann 5y agoIs that a problem?
- rndgermandude 5y agomozilla gets no credit at all? According to some old zdnet benchmarks I could google up[1], their IE7's sunspider was result was 22678ms, Firefox 2's result was 12460ms, Firefox 3 RC1 2377ms. So mozilla managed to make their Firefox 3 js engine about 10 times faster than IE7 in sunspider, more than 5 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari at the time was pretty much on par with Firefox 3. That's before any public Google Chrome release (their first release was a few months after Firefox 3 stable). After the Chrome release, js perf mostly became an arms race between Google and mozilla with the other vendors trying to not be left too far behind in the dust. Of course, in current gen browsers and on current gen hardware, sunspider is so fast it's more noise than measurement. [1] https://www.zdnet.com/a/img/resize/3062e92bf2f9f018f497239396dccb9685428cc0/2014/10/04/f000f288-4b73-11e4-b6a0-d4ae52e95e57/browsersssjb061608sm.png?fit=bounds&auto=webp https://www.zdnet.com/a/img/resize/3062e92bf2f9f018f49723939... Full size image url is broken :P
- tasogare 5y agoMozilla is funded at 90+% by Google, whatever they spend it's mostly Google's money originally so it doesn't make sense to count them as a separate entity investing on that front.