Comments on: Move over Chrome, Opera now has the fastest JS engine

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By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:18:05 +0000

Haha. As much as I love Google (and their Chrome browser) it does seem like no-one can really trump Opera – they’ve nearly always been the true pioneers of web browser innovation. Weren’t they the first browser to boast “proper zoom” (ie.: the whole page as oppose to mere text zooming which often broke web layouts and made the page virtually unreadable) also?

I confess I still use Firefox primarily as I find the Google toolbar and various plugins far too helpful, but when I’m not doing work and am merely browsing for fun, I always use Opera.

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:16:45 +0000

Your are comparing oranges to apples. Webkit is not a javascript engine, it is a rendering engine. The competing javascript engines today are:

1) Chrome’s V8
2) Mozila’s Tracemonkey
3) Safari’s Nitro
4) Opera’s Carakan

Currently Chrome’s V8 is the fastest, but Opera’s Carakan is coming closer with an outstanding alpha release. It seems that Safari’s Nitro is in the same league, while Mozila’s Tracemonkey, despite some bragging about being the fastest, is lagging behind by a large margin. IE8′s engine is out of the ball park.

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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:42:38 +0000

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By: 7Red

7Red — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:07:07 +0000

I ran the test on Windows 7, 32bit. No other tabs, no other apps running and I came in at 575.2ms.

Running the test with more tabs open has no significant effect on the result , as I tested it with 4tabs open and got 573.8ms

Even having Winamp, uTorrent and Spotify running in the background has no god damn significant effect: 587.8ms

By: Kai

Kai — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:46:37 +0000

@Pavs: And it outperforms them on Windows 7 as well. Speaking of that, the Windows 7 integration is also very nice.

By: Pavs

Pavs — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:34:00 +0000

Shadow, Opera 10.50 alpha also out performs chrome/safari/webkit nightly under OSX and vista 32bit. I can’t check it under linux, because they didn’t release any binary yet for linux.

You can also run the benchmark yourself, it takes only few minutes.

Happy Holidays.

By: Kai

Kai — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:26:23 +0000

@Relgoshan: And from what I heard in their blog, they haven’t even enabled acceleration for Vega :)

By: Relgoshan

Relgoshan — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:33:43 +0000

Absurdly fast so far. They said it’s been more than 18mos in development, this Carakan engine. Bear in mind also that Opera has had a fast draw and smooth interface to keep it feeling “slick”; only now the graphical portion is 3x faster in software, and written to permit adding hardware acceleration later.