Looking back at last two years, I can count to four different browser vendors that have at one time or the other had the fastest scripting engine according to benchmarks I’ve run. Microsoft not included. The performance crown has changed owner at least five times this summer alone. We’ve even seen one engine being all the buzz to then later be discarded because it didn’t end up fast enough to replace the old one after all. And now The WebKit guys introduce yet another improvement to JavaScriptCore, SquirrelFish Extreme.

All this lead me to wondering, of course, where are these implementations if compared to other languages in a computer langauge shootout? JavaScript was far behind in the October 2007 SpiderMonkey implementation, sure. Where does it come today? I’m sure it fares better than many other dynamic languages it’s compared to. Where does it compare to ActionScript 3? Where does it compare to Perl, Python or LUA?

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