Thursday, October 21, 2010

Firefox 4 edges out Chrome in Sunspider test

Firefox 4 edges out Chrome in Sunspider test

Filed under: Browsers

You may not be checking in on AreWeFastYet.com all that often. You may even have not known it existed until just now. Whatever the case may be, there's a very good reason to pay attention to Mozilla's Firefox 4 performance gauge.

In tonight's test run, Firefox's Spidermonkey and the JIT tandem of J�gerMonkey and Tracemonkey finally beat Google Chrome's V8 engine in a Sunspider benchmark showdown. If you take a look at the current chart, you'll see that Firefox has is even getting close on Google's own V8 benchmark -- cutting its time in half over the last two months.

I've been impressed over the last couple of days with the feel of speed in the latest Minefield builds and I didn't really need to see Mozilla's chart to know what was happening -- but it definitely provides confirmation. If you haven't tried a nightly build of Firefox 4 in a while and found yourself poo-pooing its JavaScript performance last time, you really should give it another go.

[via Asa Dotzler]

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