JavaScript Performance Benchmark

Alan Kay alan.kay at squeakland.org
Thu Apr 13 14:55:53 UTC 2006


But apparently the DOM in Safari is much faster than FireFox's (since the 
Logo we just did in JavaScript runs a little faster in Safari).

Cheers,

Alan

At 02:22 AM 4/13/2006, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

>Am 12.04.2006 um 21:59 schrieb Dan Ingalls:
>
>>I've been having fun with JavaScript, and thought folks would enjoy
>>this little tribute to tinyBenchmarks...
>>
>>         http://www.weather-dimensions.com/Dan/JavaScriptBenchmark.html
>
>Fun indeed. Anyone else noticed the abysmal send performance in
>Apple's Safari?
>
>         n1 = 4; time = 646 milliseconds; 3095975 operations/sec.
>         n2 = 24; time = 3443 milliseconds; 21791 sends/sec.
>
>Firefox is 20x faster:
>
>         n1 = 8; time = 566 milliseconds; 7067138 operations/sec.
>         n2 = 27; time = 743 milliseconds; 427740 sends/sec.
>
>- Bert -
>




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