Re: Google Chrome & the V8 Javascript engine

["Javier Guerra" <javier@...>]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:38 PM, David Given <dg@cowlark.com> wrote:
> Some of you may know that Google have just release Chrome, their new,
> open sourced, BSD licensed web browser. It comes with a very shiny new
> Javascript engine called V8, that allegedly has all kinds of performance
> enhancing features.

yep! using it to write this right now!  looks nice, can't wait to get
it for linux! (i'm using KVM to run an XP VM)

> pseudo-NWIPS
>   760         theoretical maximum (static compilation with gcc)
>   140         Lua via LuaJIT
>    91         Javascript via V8
>    33         Lua via Lua interpreter
>    10         Javascript via SpiderMonkey
>     9.1       Javascript via Rhino
>     1.7       Perl 5 via Perl 5

nice to know where are some JS implementations relative to Lua.  also,
i thought SpiderMonkey was the new JIT-able from Mozilla... or am i
mixing names?  the other datapoints i'd like to know are squirrelfish,
and 'regular' firefox JS (or is that SpiderMonkey?).

also, between FF 2 and 3 there was a noticeable speedup. but i have no
idea if it would change the relative order in your table

-- 
Javier