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They've been doing it for years, remember that Chrome/v8 is the one that forced all the others in really caring about js speed in the first place, and kept the
by nolok 13y ago
They've been doing it for years, remember that Chrome/v8 is the one that forced all the others in really caring about js speed in the first place, and kept the race going for years by always being a few steps ahead.
In this cas mozilla is the one that took the lead on the asm.js case, and healthy competition is always better, but I believe it makes no doubt that the v8 team would have worked at improving their js speed as much as possible even without that pinch from mozilla.
- asadotzler 13y ago"remember that Chrome/v8 is the one that forced all the others in really caring about js speed in the first place" That's not accurate. I recommend you go back and look at the actual order of events here. Apple started the JS perf battle with SquirrelFish Extreme and Firefox answered with TraceMonkey, all before Chrome was even announced. I am not discounting the impact that V8 has had on the industry, but it is simply wrong to claim that Google kicked this thing off when Apple and Mozilla were both there publicly squaring off in JS benchmarks well before you, and just about every one else on the planet, even knew Chrome was a thing.
- pornel 13y agoIt's hard to trace who really started it. Before SquirrelFish extreme there was Opera Kestrel that crushed everyone in JS tests: http://nontroppo.org/timer/kestrel_tests/ http://nontroppo.org/timer/kestrel_tests/ and when Safari was still an early beta Opera was marketed as "The Fastest Browser on Earth".
- afsina 13y agoThis does not changed the fact that chrome crushed the competition just like gmail crushed others. It took a very long time others to keep up and they are still behind in most cases. IMHO v8 deserves all the credit for the advance of JavaScript performance race.