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ck2
on Aug 24, 2012
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Octane minus V8
They should add it to
http://arewefastyet.com
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I wonder why firefox is radically faster at "splay" (but nothing else, sadly)
pcwalton
on Aug 24, 2012
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Because of the lack of generational GC. (Splay is a hard case for a generational GC.)
BrendanEich
on Aug 24, 2012
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Also see
http://arewefastyet.com/?a=b&view=regress
for the IonMonkey work. We really should make this the front page of AWFY....
BrendanEich
on Aug 24, 2012
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Fixed - front page of
http://arewefastyet.com/
has IonMonkey now, thanks to David Anderson.
rpearl
on Aug 24, 2012
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Keep in mind that v8's "points" scale is nonlinear, so it's not clear what "radically" actually means in terms of the time taken to run the test.
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I wonder why firefox is radically faster at "splay" (but nothing else, sadly)