Is it true about Chrome?
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In a word, no. From what I understand, those benchmarks are specifically designed so that Chrome will score very highly in them. That said, Chrome's JS engine -- called V8 -- is very fast. Make no mistake. It might be a bit faster than Firefox and Safari. Of course it blows IE out of the water. Keep an eye out, though. Firefox 3.1 will feature a new JS engine called TraceMonkey which should put it in the lead. It's going to be an interesting competition, and I really can't wait to see who comes out ahead. The great thing it's probably going to be open source, unless the IE guys really work a miracle with IE8.
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Mohammad Dayyan wrote:
Is it right ?
To some degree - it's marketing so it's best not to swallow it whole. JS up 'till now has been interpreted by browsers, Chrome includes a JIT compiler for it, thus the performance gains. Mozilla is also rolling out a JS JIT compiler it's calling TraceMonkey (someone else mentioned it in this thread somewhere) but it's still in beta so Google had a good excuse to leave it out of the benchmarking comparisons.
T-Mac-Oz
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Not using "web apps" will help them get it done faster.
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