Comments on: JavaScript in Google Chrome Not So That Fast

By: chrome plugins

chrome plugins — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:11:33 +0000

Hands down, Google Chrome wins by a mile. It brings a huge speed improvement with a slick layout. And now with the developer version you can use extensions, simply Perfect!

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Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:40:28 +0000

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By: TeacherDon

TeacherDon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:14:09 +0000

According to your assertions, V8 JavaScript isn’t as fast as touted, but your benchmarks are not testing the JavaScript engine, but the DOM engine.

Testing the V8 JavaScript engine only gave me results about 8 times faster than FireFox and about 63 times faster than MSIE 7. As it turns out, the V8 isn’t a JavaScript interpreter, but compiles JS directly into machine code. Since they have intentionally not optimized their engine yet, it will be interesting to see what the open source community will accomplish in the next few months.

There is a unique case where V8 fails to shine and that is when the JavaScript runs functions only once or uses huge amounts of eval code, in which case the speed is about the same as both FireFox and MSIE.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:28:58 +0000

Could you add a current Safari / Webkit-Nightly in your comparison?

Cause it doesn’t make much sense to compare beta browsers like Chrome or IE8 with shipinng browsers.

By: Maurice

Maurice — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:05:34 +0000

We have performed some measurements on the performance of http://www.taskwriter.com . The results show Firefox 3.0 and Chrome being pretty close. By no means as far as Google suggests with its tests.

Full details and graph here : http://www.taskwriter.com/blog/how-good-chrome-really-is/

btw, http://www.taskwriter.com is written using google web toolkit…so advantage for Chrome here.

By: George Toms

George Toms — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:19:39 +0000

Google Chrome is really fast!

Now I can sort 200,000 records inside of Browser (Chrome) just in 1 sec. (Faster than Microsoft Excel):

http://www.ardentedge.com/ex_if.htm

By: Sonny

Sonny — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:55:22 +0000

Hey Google fanboys, I’m tired of browser war — now come another browser to test for my web apps.

OK, Chrome is fast, so what? It’s new, no burden with many historical codes, not have many plugins yet. I’ll see how fast it is in 2 years later.

@fimbas: DOM selector is an important test; user may not care about it but web developer cannot ignore it.

By: Chase Saunders

Chase Saunders — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:28:26 +0000

Why test these latest versions against a version of IE that came out 7 years ago? Seems very odd.

By: fimbas

fimbas — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:18:20 +0000

Most of the users does not cares and know about these test, their simple concern is that the page should open faster, and chrome is capable of loading pages faster than any other browser.

By: Maluku

Maluku — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:48:27 +0000

Interestingly, on my own AJAX and Sofu based Website, Chrome is really 3 times faster, even though I didn’t optimize it towards it. Chrome even provides the same smooth moves and picture quality from Safari, which Firefox still lacks. (Transparent Gifs over other pictures following the mouse (i.e window drag) distort the underlying image a lot)