On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Jon Pruente [email protected] wrote:
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:43 AM, Billy Crook [email protected] wrote:
I thought (assuming their speed improvements were real) the JavaScript engine they wrote will probably be useful to other browsers if nothing else. How long will it be until they start using our browser history to target ads... uh, I mean sponsored links!!!
I tested Chrome on a single core 1.8GHz laptop and the V8 engine ran the Google benchmarks at 1200, while FF3 on the same machine ran it at 11-120. At least on the benchmarks they made an order of magnitude jump. Nifty feature-wise I like he lack of status bar by using fade-in tool-tip style balloons at the bottom for link destinations. That saves several pixels of height, which helps the widescreen crowd, esp. thge netbook segment.
Apparently the Google benchmarks are heavy on recursion, which is a complicated concept and the bane of most programmers. Chris Blizzard writes in http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=704 that maybe their benchmarks aren't useful. But hey, maybe it's Mozilla's benchmarks that suck.
Justin