wraggster
February 19th, 2011, 22:45
Google released the first beta of Chrome 10 on Thursday, and Computerworld found it to be 64% faster than its predecessor on Google's V8 JavaScript benchmarks (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9210299/Google_ups_speed_of_Chrome_10). But in another JS benchmark — WebKit's widely-cited SunSpider — Chrome 10 beta was no faster than Chrome 9. Yesterday's Chrome 10 beta release was the first to feature 'Crankshaft,' (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9200531/How_fast_is_Google_Chrome_really_) a new optimization technology. Google engineers have previously explained why SunSpider scores for a Crankshaft-equipped Chrome show little, if any, improvement over other browsers. 'The idea [in Crankshaft] is to heavily optimize code that is frequently executed and not waste time optimizing code that is not,' said the engineers. 'Because of this, benchmarks that finish in just a few milliseconds, such as SunSpider, will show little improvement with Crankshaft. The more work an application does, the bigger the gains will be.' [Chrome 10 beta download here (http://www.google.com/landing/chrome/beta/).]"http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/02/19/0012211/Chrome-10-Beta-Boosts-JavaScript-Speed-By-64