Surfin’ Safari: Announcing SquirrelFish
by Volker Weber
WebKit’s core JavaScript engine just got a new interpreter, code-named SquirrelFish.
SquirrelFish is fast—much faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter. Check out the numbers. On the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, SquirrelFish is 1.6 times faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter.
Comments
Is it bad that I find articles like this on Surfin’ Safari really interesting?
(Oh, and they use my kind of graphs: Longer bars are better)
:o)
Ben Poole, 2008-06-03
