New Mozilla Java engine faster than Google's V8

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited April 2011 in Science & Tech
While Google's quickly-famous browser has been meticulously analyzed and received scads of praise for its new Java engine, Mozilla says it is ready to do one better. Dubbed "TraceMonkey," beta versions of their new Javascript engine is already faster than Google's V8, and is being prepared for the imminent Firefox 3.1.

Testing conducted on Mozilla's refinements with the SunSpider Java benchmark reveals an improvement just shy of 20%. While Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich was quick to praise Google, saying that their new V8 JavaScript engine was "very-well engineered," he held the belief that Firefox would "only get faster."

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  • MiracleManSMiracleManS Chambersburg, PA Icrontian
    edited September 2008
    While this is certainly telling, I think the biggest difference is the way Chrome renders a web page. I may be interpreting things incorrectly, but my understanding is that each piece of the website is rendered independently, allowing the site to display that which has already been completed, meaning you see parts of the site faster (general mark-up/CSS for example) instead of waiting on things to load.

    I also like to remember this is technically a beta...just like many of Firefox's new things (TraceMonkey).

    I'd like to see these two go at it and really redesign the browser.
  • Someone
    edited April 2011
    Java != JavaScript.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    2008 != 2011
  • PacifistoPacifisto Turnip Extraordinaire Michigan Icrontian
    edited April 2011
    This thread shall never die!

    Apparently.
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