Linked by Adam S on Fri 19th Sep 2008 14:26 UTC, submitted by Hakime
Internet & Networking Just three months ago, we announced SquirrelFish, a major revamp of our JavaScript engine featuring a high-performance bytecode interpreter. Today we’d like to announce the next generation of our JavaScript engine - SquirrelFish Extreme (or SFX for short). SquirrelFish Extreme uses more advanced techniques, including fast native code generation, to deliver even more JavaScript performance. Benchmarks can be found Squirrelfish Extreme benchmarks can be found on the "Summer of Javascriptcore" blog. As seen, it claims to be faster than both Squirrelfish, Google's V8, and the upcoming Firefox javascript engine, Tracemonkey.
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Yeah!
by Ventajou on Fri 19th Sep 2008 15:00 UTC
Ventajou
Member since:
2006-10-31

Now if only someone could come up with a virus that deletes all those IE6 still out there...

RE: Yeah!
by Liquidator on Fri 19th Sep 2008 15:54 in reply to "Yeah!"
Liquidator Member since:
2007-03-04

Or antivirus vendors should reach a consensus to consider IE6 a security threat and ask the user if he prefers putting it on quarantine or removing it ;)

The article summary should mention that Squirrelfish is the Webkit JS engine.

I expect web applications to be no slower than desktop applications. Digg.com is a great candidate to test a JS engine ;)

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RE[2]: Yeah!
by Bully on Fri 19th Sep 2008 16:11 in reply to "RE: Yeah!"
Bully Member since:
2006-04-07

I expect web applications to be no slower than desktop applications.


You can always try to slow down your desktop applications to reach that goal. ;)

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RE[2]: Yeah!
by google_ninja on Fri 19th Sep 2008 17:17 in reply to "RE: Yeah!"
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2006-02-05

That isn't a very reasonable expectation, it is only beta level browsers that are able to deliver both experience and speed comparable to desktop apps, and even these have only appeared quite recently.

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RE[2]: Yeah!
by michi on Fri 19th Sep 2008 18:33 in reply to "RE: Yeah!"
michi Member since:
2006-02-04

I expect web applications to be no slower than desktop applications.


Just install Windows Vista and you can make that a reality today:)

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