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Um wow, it is freaking fast. I have never seen Reader, Digg or Gmail load that quickly. Perhaps I can wait for Chrome on the Mac. Someone should benchmark th

by snewe 18y ago

Um wow, it is freaking fast. I have never seen Reader, Digg or Gmail load that quickly. Perhaps I can wait for Chrome on the Mac. Someone should benchmark this against V8.

ROFISH 18y ago
http://summerofjsc.blogspot.com/2008/09/squirrelfish-extreme-has-landed.html http://summerofjsc.blogspot.com/2008/09/squirrelfish-extreme... Already done. ;)
- jwilliams 18y ago
  Anyone here know much about the SunSpider benchmark? It's used in this article. It's a WebKit benchmark, so if they are using that to drive their performance tuning then this might lead to a bias (if you use a benchmark as your milestones you're going to get good at that benchmark, even a complex one). Not saying they have, just curious.
  - ionfish 18y ago
    SunSpider is used pretty widely; it claims to be a balanced benchmark, but where the balance point between different language features lies will depend quite a lot on what kind of application one happens to be writing, so it's more an art than a science. http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html
- sh1mmer 18y ago
  I'd also like to see this compared on a range of javascript test suites like John Reisig did recently. Good job on the quick test results though.
- 13ren 18y ago
  Google beaten! But just like the spectrum auction, even when it loses it wins.
buymorechuck 18y ago
http://www.satine.org/archives/2008/09/19/squirrelfish-extreme-fastest-javascript-engine-yet/ http://www.satine.org/archives/2008/09/19/squirrelfish-extre... and done. Compare against Chrome on Windows.
metaguri 18y ago
Yeah, just threw it on my laptop and it soars. Amazing. And still syncs with mobileme (you may laugh, but I have my bookmarks on my PC at work, and when I find a good article on news.yc and bookmark it, it shows up on my laptop at home)
skalpelis 18y ago
It's funny how a completely new version of a three-months old javascript engine appears just a few weeks after the launch of Chrome. Not that that's bad, of course.
- othermaciej 18y ago
  If you read the article it should be clear we didn't code all that stuff in just two weeks. Or if we did then we are stupendous badasses. :-)
  - skalpelis 18y ago
    Oh, I understand that, it's just amazing how Google was boasting about an increase of magnitude in js performance, only to have their asses handed to them in just two weeks :)

by snewe 18y ago

Um wow, it is freaking fast. I have never seen Reader, Digg or Gmail load that quickly. Perhaps I can wait for Chrome on the Mac. Someone should benchmark this against V8.

ROFISH 18y ago

http://summerofjsc.blogspot.com/2008/09/squirrelfish-extreme-has-landed.html http://summerofjsc.blogspot.com/2008/09/squirrelfish-extreme... Already done. ;)

jwilliams 18y ago
Anyone here know much about the SunSpider benchmark? It's used in this article. It's a WebKit benchmark, so if they are using that to drive their performance tuning then this might lead to a bias (if you use a benchmark as your milestones you're going to get good at that benchmark, even a complex one). Not saying they have, just curious.
- ionfish 18y ago
  SunSpider is used pretty widely; it claims to be a balanced benchmark, but where the balance point between different language features lies will depend quite a lot on what kind of application one happens to be writing, so it's more an art than a science. http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html
sh1mmer 18y ago
I'd also like to see this compared on a range of javascript test suites like John Reisig did recently. Good job on the quick test results though.
13ren 18y ago
Google beaten! But just like the spectrum auction, even when it loses it wins.

buymorechuck 18y ago

http://www.satine.org/archives/2008/09/19/squirrelfish-extreme-fastest-javascript-engine-yet/ http://www.satine.org/archives/2008/09/19/squirrelfish-extre... and done. Compare against Chrome on Windows.

metaguri 18y ago

Yeah, just threw it on my laptop and it soars. Amazing. And still syncs with mobileme (you may laugh, but I have my bookmarks on my PC at work, and when I find a good article on news.yc and bookmark it, it shows up on my laptop at home)

skalpelis 18y ago

It's funny how a completely new version of a three-months old javascript engine appears just a few weeks after the launch of Chrome. Not that that's bad, of course.

othermaciej 18y ago
If you read the article it should be clear we didn't code all that stuff in just two weeks. Or if we did then we are stupendous badasses. :-)
- skalpelis 18y ago
  Oh, I understand that, it's just amazing how Google was boasting about an increase of magnitude in js performance, only to have their asses handed to them in just two weeks :)