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How Chrome Changed the Web Overnight

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Re: How Chrome Changed the Web Overnight

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Can we all say hype? Chrome hasn't changed anything yet. More importantly, it comes with one unique and great advance - the fact that each tab is a separate process. V8, beyond the hype, doesn't seem to do any better than the upcoming javascript engines from Apple and Mozilla. It may be an order of magnitude better than what is currently production, but it's in the same ballpark as what Firefox and Safari will have s…

Again. Sometimes an order of magnitude is game-changing. There are articles about people long ago trying to cram in features into their word processor that nowadays are trivial even in shell that were immensely complex because of less RAM or CPU. Alot of the stuff thats different I agree is evolutionary, but Chrome has two features: "fast" and "faster". It appears that V8 doesn't blow everyone else out of the water c…

The thing is that it is NOT an order of magnitude faster than other javascript engines in production.

The Dromaeo test suite shows the production Safari 3.1.2 on Windows beats Chrome. Wow, Safari before the huge JS upgrade beating Chrome on the Windows platform! The SunSpider suite shows Chrome to be around 40% faster than Safari and 25% faster than Firefox 3, but on par with Safari 4.0 and only a tad faster than Firefox 3.1.

In fact, the only thing that shows V8 as being so amazing is Google's own test which is basically a lot of recursion (akin to Microsoft's surveys that show people love Vista).

Google has a good product, but it isn't an order of magnitude better than what exists today and is on par with what is coming in the future. Heck, pull a nightly of the new Mozilla TraceMonkey engine and you'll see that TraceMonkey handily beats V8 (after 2 months of development rather than 2 years). Oh, and Chrome isn't in production.

Different processes will be game changing. V8 just won't be.

Re: How Chrome Changed the Web Overnight

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Can we all say hype? Chrome hasn't changed anything yet. More importantly, it comes with one unique and great advance - the fact that each tab is a separate process. V8, beyond the hype, doesn't seem to do any better than the upcoming javascript engines from Apple and Mozilla. It may be an order of magnitude better than what is currently production, but it's in the same ballpark as what Firefox and Safari will have s…

Spot on. Chrome makes some interesting architectural choices, but there's nothing so innovative about it to justify all the froth. If Google's name wasn't attached to it, Chrome wouldn't receive half the attention it's getting.
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