Benchmarking JavaScript browser speed: Opera runs away with the crown
I’ve been curious for some time how to measure the efficiency and speed of various javascript engines. A neat link from Sotto gave me the answer: BenchJS JavaScript Speed Test.
I conducted some benchmarking tests on my own machine (2.6 GHz machine running Windows 2000) and confirmed what Sotto already knew: Opera blows other browsers out of the water in terms of JavaScript speed. The details of my tests are as follows:
First place: Opera 7. These results are for my just-downloaded v7.54. This speed demon completed the test in about half the time of the next best browser.
Second place: Firefox 1.0. I was a little surprised that it beat IE, actually. Sometimes FF seems slow to me, and I thought IE might be able to cheat by magically marshalling Windows system resources. Uh, looks like no.
Third place: Internet Explorer 6. Maybe they should have included some IE-specific DHTML in the tests. :)
Fourth place: Netscape 4. Wow, big surprise here.
February 26th, 2005 at 7:01 pm
Very interesting. I still can’t get behind Opera. I’ve noticed that the expand/hide functionality on my site, there’s large performance gap between between FF and IE. Essentially, the JavaScript does several “getElementById” calls and then sets a few style parameters. This happens nearly instantly in FF but lags just a tad in IE (but nothing to get your panties in a ruffle about). However, based on that difference I would have expects a greater degree of seperation between IE and FF. Opera doesn’t even enter my thoughts b/c the browser sucks in so many other important ways.
March 30th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Installer maledetti…
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May 4th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
I encountered lot of javascript problems when using FF.