Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Feb 2009 20:08 UTC
Opera has announced a new JavaScript engine. "Over the past few months, a small team of developers and testers have been working on implementing a new ECMAScript/JavaScript engine for Opera. When Opera's current ECMAScript engine, called Futhark, was first released in a public version, it was the fastest engine on the market. That engine was developed to minimize code footprint and memory usage, rather than to achieve maximum execution speed. This has traditionally been a correct trade-off on many of the platforms Opera runs on. The Web is a changing environment however, and tomorrow's advanced web applications will require faster ECMAScript execution, so we have now taken on the challenge to once again develop the fastest ECMAScript engine on the market."
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It's a shame people make so much fuss over Javascript benchmarks - Opera is head and shoulders above anyone in rendering and UI performance, the things that actually matter right now.
Javascript is very important on today's web. It's used virtually everywhere and currently Opera's javascript performance is subpar. It really can affect your browsing negatively if you visit javascript heavy websites. This is an important development for Opera especially considering Webkit and Gecko's recent JS performance enhancements.