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 ...

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.

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 ...

SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark. SunSpider is a JavaScript benchmark developed by Apple's WebKit team in 2007, and has its focus in real-world JavaScript uses such as text manipulation and encryption.

This is based on SunSpider but features crucial benchmarking enhancements; RoboHornet : A Google-led open-source browser benchmark. Octane : Google's new benchmark, based on the V8 test suite.

The second set of data shows a comparison between iPhone OS 2.2.1 and the iPhone OS 3.0 beta running the WebKit team's SunSpider benchmark.According to our sources, the 3.0 beta still has some ...

In SunSpider, a lower score is better, and the iPad 2 proved more than 4x as fast as the iPad overall. The original tablet scored 8594.9ms, while the iPad 2 managed 2121.7ms.

Mozilla has unleashed the Kraken, a new JavaScript benchmark test. It joins similar efforts like Google’s V8 and the WebKit project’s SunSpider tests, which are widely used to measure browser ...

SunSpider is a JavaScript benchmark, probably one of the oldest ones around. We ran version 1.0.2, the latest and last version released (SunSpider is no longer maintained). For this benchmark, a ...

Google's Android mobile operating system got some significant performance improvements in version 2.2, codenamed Froyo. A high-performance JIT was introduced in Android's Dalvik runtime ...

Conducted by Medialets, the test involved running a JavaScript benchmark called SunSpider using the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, T-Mobile G1 and Palm Pre. (SunSpider tests the \[…\] Skip to main content ...