One of the most impressive features in Google’s open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark. Although Chrome’s performance beats the current stable version of Firefox, benchmarks show that Mozilla’s next-generation JavaScript engine actually outperforms V8.
Mozilla is using tracing optimization techniques and Adobe’s open source nanojit to increase the execution speed of SpiderMonkey, the JavaScript runtime engine in the Firefox web browser. The new engine, which is called TraceMonkey, delivers unprecedented JavaScript performance. The new optimizations have already landed in the latest Firefox nightly builds (but still have to be manually enabled) and will likely be included in Firefox 3.1.
Bellow as you can see are the SunSpider Javascript Results in FF, Chrome and IE7, IE8.
FF RESULTS (w/o new Engine)
Total: 3283.8ms +/- 1.1%
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3d: 364.0ms +/- 3.4%
cube: 138.8ms +/- 4.6%
morph: 102.8ms +/- 6.1%
raytrace: 122.4ms +/- 3.3%
access: 519.0ms +/- 2.8%
binary-trees: 46.8ms +/- 1.2%
fannkuch: 272.2ms +/- 2.7%
nbody: 133.0ms +/- 2.7%
nsieve: 67.0ms +/- 8.6%
bitops: 360.8ms +/- 1.8%
3bit-bits-in-byte: 62.2ms +/- 1.7%
bits-in-byte: 99.2ms +/- 4.8%
bitwise-and: 80.8ms +/- 2.0%
nsieve-bits: 118.6ms +/- 2.8%
controlflow: 46.0ms +/- 1.9%
recursive: 46.0ms +/- 1.9%
crypto: 210.0ms +/- 1.1%
aes: 78.6ms +/- 0.9%
md5: 62.8ms +/- 5.5%
sha1: 68.6ms +/- 2.1%
date: 279.2ms +/- 1.8%
format-tofte: 175.0ms +/- 1.8%
format-xparb: 104.2ms +/- 3.5%
math: 376.0ms +/- 1.7%
cordic: 179.4ms +/- 1.9%
partial-sums: 126.6ms +/- 2.8%
spectral-norm: 70.0ms +/- 2.2%
regexp: 255.2ms +/- 10.7%
dna: 255.2ms +/- 10.7%
string: 873.6ms +/- 1.0%
base64: 91.6ms +/- 2.3%
fasta: 193.4ms +/- 10.0%
tagcloud: 151.2ms +/- 7.0%
unpack-code: 325.4ms +/- 4.1%
validate-input: 112.0ms +/- 3.0%
Chrome RESULTS
Total: 1491.8ms +/- 2.1% -------------------------------------------- 3d: 118.8ms +/- 8.0% cube: 27.6ms +/- 19.3% morph: 56.8ms +/- 17.9% raytrace: 34.4ms +/- 6.0% access: 77.2ms +/- 4.6% binary-trees: 6.0ms +/- 20.7% fannkuch: 26.2ms +/- 4.0% nbody: 27.6ms +/- 11.3% nsieve: 17.4ms +/- 6.4% bitops: 60.8ms +/- 7.3% 3bit-bits-in-byte: 5.2ms +/- 26.2% bits-in-byte: 10.2ms +/- 10.2% bitwise-and: 19.2ms +/- 7.1% nsieve-bits: 26.2ms +/- 15.5% controlflow: 3.8ms +/- 14.6% recursive: 3.8ms +/- 14.6% crypto: 56.4ms +/- 10.9% aes: 22.0ms +/- 21.5% md5: 18.0ms +/- 13.8% sha1: 16.4ms +/- 6.8% date: 346.0ms +/- 1.8% format-tofte: 143.2ms +/- 3.2% format-xparb: 202.8ms +/- 1.3% math: 106.4ms +/- 3.2% cordic: 54.6ms +/- 7.3% partial-sums: 37.6ms +/- 3.0% spectral-norm: 14.2ms +/- 19.0% regexp: 324.8ms +/- 3.4% dna: 324.8ms +/- 3.4% string: 397.6ms +/- 3.1% base64: 41.0ms +/- 14.9% fasta: 56.4ms +/- 13.2% tagcloud: 104.8ms +/- 4.7% unpack-code: 135.0ms +/- 2.3% validate-input: 60.4ms +/- 4.7%IE7 RESULTS (very disappointing)
Total: 31407.0ms +/- 9.2% -------------------------------------------- 3d: 1309.8ms +/- 1.7% cube: 364.4ms +/- 3.8% morph: 439.8ms +/- 2.6% raytrace: 505.6ms +/- 1.3% access: 1925.0ms +/- 2.0% binary-trees: 462.8ms +/- 3.6% fannkuch: 771.2ms +/- 1.6% nbody: 365.6ms +/- 1.5% nsieve: 325.4ms +/- 6.2% bitops: 1752.6ms +/- 1.1% 3bit-bits-in-byte: 443.0ms +/- 1.4% bits-in-byte: 483.0ms +/- 2.0% bitwise-and: 469.2ms +/- 1.9% nsieve-bits: 357.4ms +/- 1.6% controlflow: 543.0ms +/- 4.2% recursive: 543.0ms +/- 4.2% crypto: 1088.0ms +/- 1.6% aes: 386.2ms +/- 1.9% md5: 353.8ms +/- 3.2% sha1: 348.0ms +/- 1.3% date: 910.8ms +/- 2.9% format-tofte: 442.6ms +/- 2.3% format-xparb: 468.2ms +/- 3.5% math: 1273.2ms +/- 5.8% cordic: 500.0ms +/- 5.1% partial-sums: 322.2ms +/- 2.7% spectral-norm: 451.0ms +/- 12.0% regexp: 394.6ms +/- 2.0% dna: 394.6ms +/- 2.0% string: 22210.0ms +/- 12.6% base64: 10699.4ms +/- 25.5% fasta: 501.4ms +/- 9.8% tagcloud: 3187.2ms +/- 7.0% unpack-code: 521.0ms +/- 2.6% validate-input: 7301.0ms +/- 3.8%IE8 RESULTS (big improvement, still slower)
Total: 5487.4ms +/- 2.2% -------------------------------------------- 3d: 665.4ms +/- 4.0% cube: 216.0ms +/- 5.7% morph: 194.4ms +/- 5.2% raytrace: 255.0ms +/- 4.7% access: 988.6ms +/- 3.2% binary-trees: 192.2ms +/- 4.2% fannkuch: 411.0ms +/- 4.7% nbody: 235.2ms +/- 6.5% nsieve: 150.2ms +/- 4.1% bitops: 836.0ms +/- 2.5% 3bit-bits-in-byte: 133.0ms +/- 6.9% bits-in-byte: 136.6ms +/- 4.1% bitwise-and: 352.6ms +/- 4.7% nsieve-bits: 213.8ms +/- 3.6% controlflow: 159.4ms +/- 9.5% recursive: 159.4ms +/- 9.5% crypto: 457.0ms +/- 3.6% aes: 187.8ms +/- 10.0% md5: 137.4ms +/- 6.2% sha1: 131.8ms +/- 5.3% date: 488.8ms +/- 5.4% format-tofte: 259.0ms +/- 8.2% format-xparb: 229.8ms +/- 7.5% math: 632.6ms +/- 3.0% cordic: 253.0ms +/- 6.5% partial-sums: 200.6ms +/- 3.4% spectral-norm: 179.0ms +/- 7.9% regexp: 217.2ms +/- 3.0% dna: 217.2ms +/- 3.0% string: 1042.4ms +/- 2.7% base64: 197.0ms +/- 9.1% fasta: 281.8ms +/- 5.9% tagcloud: 181.0ms +/- 3.8% unpack-code: 182.4ms +/- 5.8% validate-input: 200.2ms +/- 4.6%As you can see Chrome now holds the leading position in this field. More is yet to come. Stay tuned this post will be updated as soon as FF 3.1 is released.
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