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The SunSpider JavaScript performance benchmark, devised by the developers of the WebKit browser engine, is used and quoted widely as a measure of browser scripting performance. A surprising result ...
Apple's WebKit team has released a revamped new SunSpider 1.0 benchmark suite for profiling the performance of web browser JavaScript execution, replacing the 0.9 version initially released at the ...
It was intended to address flaws in the earlier SunSpider benchmark, developed by Apple's Safari team. SunSpider's tests were all microbenchmarks, sometimes testing something as small as a single ...
A Mozilla engineer has uncovered an oddity with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 where one test that is part of the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark gives an odd, unexpected result.
On SunSpider 0.9, the results were a more even distribution. Chrome scored 1,775--and bear in mind that here smaller numbers are better--to Firefox's 2,671, Safari 4's 4,257, ...
A new JavaScript engine secures Firefox's lead on the SunSpider test, but Chrome showed a 22 percent gain on Google's own performance benchmark. Newer Chrome, Firefox show speed improvements - CNET X ...
Digitizor suggests that Microsoft has either optimized IE9 to return strong SunSpider results – which they say is "cheating" – or that the company's engineers have been focusing too greatly on ...
We've got quite a nice little look at the HTC Sensation, (previously known as the HTC Pyramid) and what do you know?We even have some benchmarks! These are all courtesy of our good fellow Chris ...
So what do all these numbers mean? Well, Intel's 2GHz processor is pretty capable. Although the RAZR i only bests the RAZR M on SunSpider browser performance (something that Intel's been focusing ...
Here Google Chrome completed the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark in a average of 1,791 milliseconds, nearly half the time that Firefox 3.0.1 took to complete the test. In this test Google Chrome ...