Ubuntu update manager offered me to upgrade to Firefox 5.0
I was curious and upgraded, ran v8 benchmark to see what has improved
Google chromium 12 is nearly twice as fast as Firefox 5 in v8 benchmarks
Firefox 5.0 adds a do not track feature which is one of exciting new features
I was curious and upgraded, ran v8 benchmark to see what has improved
Google chromium 12 is nearly twice as fast as Firefox 5 in v8 benchmarks
Firefox 5.0 adds a do not track feature which is one of exciting new features
The V8 benchmark is made by Google so its made to showcase the V8 JS engine's strengths, which is why they have the same name. One of theses strengths is a Generational Garbage Collector, which literally accounts for half the performance in this benchmark suite. It has less to do with raw JS compute performance and more to do with how fast it can destroy unused memory.
ReplyDeleteMozilla are working on implementing a Generational Garbage Collector, buts it'll take time. 6 months maybe.
Thanks for the info
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