"WebKit's core JavaScript engine just got a new interpreter, code-named SquirrelFish." According to the Webkit blog, SquirrelFish is 1.6 times faster than WebKit's previous interpreter. This detailed blog entry explains exactly why the new engine is so much faster and the Webkit team's plans for continued improvement in rendering speeds. 
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Hasn't KHTML been replaced by the KDE (or is it Qt?) port of WebKit?
It has been included into Qt.
http://www.osnews.com/story/19720/Qt_4.4_Released
But unfortunately Konqueror does not use it.
Edited 2008-06-03 19:36 UTC
Member since:2005-09-21
I wonder if this thing will find its way back to khtml.
Not likely. KHTML devs have done their own Javascript performance work. http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3476
Too bad really to see this duplication of effort still going on, but lots of changes between the two engines have accumulated over the years...
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2005-07-20
I wonder if this thing will find its way back to khtml.