Jun

5

SquirrelFish: Webkit’s new Javascript Interpreter

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So Webkit’s JS interpreter has just hit the big time — it’s now a full blown vm instead of a syntax-tree-walker like the other slow-pokes.  What’s interesting is it’s roughly 1.6x faster than Safari 3.1’s js interpreter and 4.something times as fast as Safari 3.0’s so we’re talking a major improvement here.  The blog post talks about why SquirrelFish is faster and what to expect in the future (the developers state that it’s relatively unoptimized at this point.  Hopefully Microsoft moves to something along these lines for IE9 — the javascript performance of IE8 will still be mediocre relative to other modern browsers (except for its predecessors, of course).


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