26 Feb
I figured I would drop this post here from the future.
A few thoughts:
Safari 4 doesn’t need to wait for the future it is here on my Mac today and with its ultra fast Nitro (formally known as SquirelFish Extreme) java script engine it blows away the competition.
Google Chrome has V8 while Safari (webkit) has Nitro. [...]
5 Oct
There are two things Firefox can do that Safari can’t:
1. Set pipelining on. Although there is risk that the web servers can’t support pipelining it provides a nice speedup on a high-speed connection.
2. Allow tweaking of the Connections per server setting. This is technically against the recommendations of the w3c protocol but when you have [...]
21 Sep
So the biggest question in my mind now is:
When will we see SquirrelFish Extreme for the Mobile Safari browser on the iPhone?
Apple is already winning the mobile browser wars, and the latest WebKit advancements will only solidify that lead.
21 Sep
It has thus far been an amazing summer when it comes to browser performance.
We have seen 3 major advances in browser performance when it comes to Javascript specifically.
1. Firefox Tracemonkey
2. Google Chrome V8
3. Webkit SquirrelFish Extreme
Each one has been an exciting advancement in browser performance, leaping ahead quickly. I have been a long time Safari [...]
26 Aug
John Resig – TraceMonkey
If you haven’t yet downloaded a nightly version of Firefox 3.1 go and do it. Enable the Tracemonkey support by going to about:config and searching for “jit”. Set both of the jit options to “true” and away you go. The speed difference is incredible. It made the Safari 4 [...]
