Is browser performance affected by OS, CPU and the amount of RAM available? Let's see by comparing a 3.2GHz quad-core system with 2GB of RAM on Vista SP1 32-bit to a Windows XP SP2 system with ...

Another performance test suite, Dromaeo, currently measures JavaScript and DOM performance—providing a decidedly different picture of where browsers currently stand: ...

Mozilla has unleashed the Kraken, a new JavaScript benchmark test. It joins similar efforts like Google’s V8 and the WebKit project’s SunSpider tests, which are widely used to measure browser ...

Peacekeeper: FutureMark's JavaScript test which stress-tests features such as animation, navigation, forms and other commonly utilized tasks; Kraken 1.0 : Another JavaScript benchmark developed by ...

Google debuted version 2.0 of its Octane benchmark suite today, a set of 17 tests that measure how fast a browser can execute JavaScript code. The addition of asm.js is a pretty interesting move ...

I'm developing a JavaScript application that has some non-essential functionality that is slow for older browsers (the main concern is the corporate IE6). I would like to warn (or possibly just ...

Google announced the release of a new JavaScript benchmark suite, known as Octane, which breaks tradition with existing benchmarks and adds five new tests to Google's V8 benchmark.

On the Sunspider JavaScript performance test, despite all the performance improvements Microsoft says it's making, IE8 finished last by roughly 3,000ms. Â It was narrowly bested by Opera 10 alpha ...

JavaScript speed tests are hardly the alpha and omega of browser performance, but in this case, Chrome took a cruel hit. I pitted Chrome against Safari, using the SunSpider 0.9.1 JavaScript benchmark.

Google announced it was retiring its Octane JavaScript benchmark, saying most of its tests are outdated and contained bugs that allowed browser developers to cheat and obtain higher scores than ...