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 [...]

As I noted in my last post, TraceMonkey is turning out to be a really fast scripting engine. Fast to the point, in fact, that Mozilla decided to stop producing ActionMonkey builds. Some technical reasons for this can be found on the Mozilla Wiki: JavaScript:ActionMonkey page.
Adobe already seem to have left their strong position in [...]

I’m sure you all know it by now, but Google released their own WebKit based browser, Google Chrome. It’s an interesting browser to me in particular because it’s got a new scripting engine, the Google V8 JavaScript Engine. From a quick look at the descriptions of it, this isn’t your run-of-the-mill JavaScript bytecode interpreted engine, [...]