I work with a lot of JavaScript at my job. Specifically, I use a lot of Jquery when coding web applications used internally. But because I use Google Chrome at work—on my Ubuntu laptop I use Chromium—I tend to take some things for granted. Today I ran across the Benchmark Suite that Google uses internally for making sure that Chrome’s JavaScript engine is super-fast.
So, I tried it out on my laptop under Firefox and was pretty impressed to see the following scores, since the benchmark said that 100 was a reference score and that bigger is better.
Score: 186
Richards: 137
DeltaBlue: 208
Crypto: 161
RayTrace: 132
EarleyBoyer: 220
RegExp: 150
Splay: 391
Of course then I ran it in Chromium on the exact same laptop, under equal load and got the following. Then I was truly impressed and started to wonder why Firefox’s score was so terrible.
Score: 2739
Richards: 3140
DeltaBlue: 3069
Crypto: 2285
RayTrace: 2810
EarleyBoyer: 3959
RegExp: 914
Splay: 5171
I’m not sure I even want to know how Internet Explorer does.