Firefox 4's JavaScript Now Faster Than Chrome's 352
An anonymous reader writes "Firefox 4's JavaScript engine is now faster than V8 (used in Chrome) and Nitro (used in Safari) in the SunSpider benchmark on x86. On Mozilla's test system Nitro completes the benchmark in 369.7 milliseconds, V8 in 356.5 milliseconds, and Firefox 4's TraceMonkey and JaegerMonkey combination in 350.3 milliseconds. Conceivably Tech has a brief rundown of some benchmark figures from their test system obtained with the latest JS preview build of Firefox 4: 'Our AMD Phenom X6-based Dell XPS 7100 PC completed the Sunspider test with the latest Firefox JS (4.0 b8-pre) build in 478.6 ms this morning, while Chrome 8.0.560.0 clocked in at 589.8 ms.' On x86-64 Nitro still has the lead over V8 and TraceMonkey+JaegerMonkey in the SunSpider benchmark."
FF4 (Score:5, Funny)
FF4 crashes when I try to open Gmail since the change. This makes it slower for opening my mail.
1. connect to gmail with FF4
2. FF4 crashes.
3. Open chrome and go to gmail
4. ??? (train monkeys to joust)
5. Profit
6 milliseconds! Wheee!!! (Score:5, Funny)
I'll be able to do one more mouse click every three weeks or so.
What Mozilla giveth, Slashcode taketh away. (Score:5, Funny)
Why do I have a feeling that Slashcode's terrible AJAX interface is going to get even worse in the near future?
This is quite possibly the lamest e-peen measuring contest ever.
Re:Yeah.... So? (Score:2, Funny)
Well, if it sucks, maybe you should implement a vacuum cleaner with it.
Re:thats great but.... (Score:1, Funny)
Just use Opera. Done deal.
Re:What Mozilla giveth, Slashcode taketh away. (Score:5, Funny)
Yea, what is even more irritating is they keep subjecting us to it. Even thought the boxes stay checked I have had to go to my user preferences and turn on and then back off the new comment system several times in the last two weeks. I hate it, based on the comments I read here on Slashdot just about everyone else hates it two. Some of them are just Luddites that want the Slashdot of 1997 period but the rest of us just hate because its an awful way to browse and read comments, awful (GET IT TACO AWFUL) so many other sites have gotten it write, if you feel he need to update the look and feel of Slashdot go look at what others are doing!
Re:Interesting? (Score:2, Funny)
You're just jealous that my wife is harder than yours.
Re:thats great but.... (Score:2, Funny)
Your sig:
This will not work unless you give us your password. :-)