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

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