Test Your Browser’s JavaScript Performance

Cnet ran some tests on the JavaScript performance of selected browsers like the latest Firefox version, Firefox beta and Google Chrome builds. JavaScript performance was in the news since Google and the Mozilla Firefox development team announced improvements in JavaScript performance.

Cnet used the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark to test browser performance of the browsers. There are other factors that have an impact on JavaScript performance like the processing power of the computer system.

Read on for the results.

Here are mine (Slackware Linux 12.1, Firefox 3.0.1 – connection passes through squid and  privoxy.)

RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total:                  4018.2ms +/- 0.7%
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  3d:                    468.8ms +/- 0.5%
    cube:                167.8ms +/- 1.3%
    morph:               149.0ms +/- 0.0%
    raytrace:            152.0ms +/- 2.0%

  access:                535.0ms +/- 1.1%
    binary-trees:         61.0ms +/- 2.0%
    fannkuch:            210.0ms +/- 1.4%
    nbody:               192.2ms +/- 1.7%
    nsieve:               71.8ms +/- 5.1%

  bitops:                356.0ms +/- 1.2%
    3bit-bits-in-byte:    60.2ms +/- 0.9%
    bits-in-byte:         87.6ms +/- 0.8%
    bitwise-and:          93.2ms +/- 0.6%
    nsieve-bits:         115.0ms +/- 3.1%

  controlflow:            49.0ms +/- 0.0%
    recursive:            49.0ms +/- 0.0%

  crypto:                234.8ms +/- 0.8%
    aes:                  88.2ms +/- 0.6%
    md5:                  72.6ms +/- 0.9%
    sha1:                 74.0ms +/- 1.2%

  date:                  458.8ms +/- 1.7%
    format-tofte:        271.8ms +/- 1.6%
    format-xparb:        187.0ms +/- 1.9%

  math:                  451.2ms +/- 3.8%
    cordic:              174.6ms +/- 1.8%
    partial-sums:        191.8ms +/- 7.0%
    spectral-norm:        84.8ms +/- 1.6%

  regexp:                380.8ms +/- 9.4%
    dna:                 380.8ms +/- 9.4%

  string:               1083.8ms +/- 1.4%
    base64:              113.0ms +/- 1.7%
    fasta:               237.4ms +/- 4.3%
    tagcloud:            211.8ms +/- 3.3%
    unpack-code:         368.6ms +/- 1.4%
    validate-input:      153.0ms +/- 1.6%

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