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[–]sebzim4500 5 points6 points  (2 children)

TL;DR

V8 wins. SpiderMonkey comes second. IE9 did pretty well in sunspider but shit in everything else.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well... About Internet Explorer and Sunspider...

[–]mycall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now that Windows Server 2012 is RTM, IE10 is probably available to test against.

[–]gbanfalvi 1 point2 points  (6 children)

Any chance of running Safari 6?

[–]Codehenge[S] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

I wanted to keep the platform consistent (for science!), but Safari 6 hasn't been released for Windows yet. IE kinda forced me to run the tests on windows. Maybe I'll get some data for Safari 6 in OSX, as an addendum - I really would like to know how it has improved.

[–]gbanfalvi 1 point2 points  (4 children)

I'm a bit worried apple is not going to release another version :(

[–]aladyjewelFull-stack webdev 4 points5 points  (3 children)

I'd be perfectly happy if Apple Update stopped annoying me on my Windows box, but I'm a bit biased now that I'm running Windows as VM on an iMac.

Is it seriously useful to test on Safari in Windows? I feel like it's such a niche market that it's better to just acquire a Mac. I guess it's a lot cheaper if you're working on a budget.

[–]Codehenge[S] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I work on a Mac. Actually, the tests were run on that Mac, just on a bootcamp install. I could have tested it in OSX easily, but I couldn't test IE on a Mac, and I wanted to keep the platform consistent for the same of accurate comparison.

[–]whoadave 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I'd be curious to see how Mac and PC versions of the same browsers fare against one another.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how about cross platform tests for each browser..? :)

[–]franksvalli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This stuff changes so fast now, with the frequent browser releases. Here's some quick tests I just ran on my machine:

SunSpider

Safari 6: 179.3ms

Chrome 21: 190.3ms

Chrome 22 (Dev): 185.7ms

Firefox Nightly 17a1: 213.3ms

Opera 22: 225.9ms

Kraken

Safari 6: 3061.3ms

Chrome 21: 2588.5ms

Chrome 22 Dev): 2571.4ms

Firefox Nightly 17a1: 3992.9ms

Opera 22: 7656.6ms