Javascript Performance Comparison: IE vs. Firefox vs. Chrome

The Danish Google folks have a benchmark suite of JavaScripts that they used for tuning Google Chrome's V8 engine.

I ran their tests in Chrome 0.2.149.27, Firefox 3.0.1 and Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.17184.

Results* are below, higher number is better:

Browser	Richards	DeltaBlue	Crypto	RayTrace	EarleyBoyer	Overall
IE**	15	16	19	35	57	25
Firefox	53	51	41	65	84	57
Chrome	816	647	483	441	730	607

It'll be interesting to see what Firefox 3.1 and TraceMonkey brings to the table, but IE is seriously left in the dust here...  And I doubt Google would be foolish enough to stack these tests in Chrome's favor.

* Each time you run these tests, the score will fluctuate, based on what else is going on on your system.  These are the results of single tests, re-running the test gave different values, but the overall trend is the same.

** After the second Test I got the "Stop running this script?" warning - I clicked No as soon as I could, but not sure if that affected the score on the subsequent tests...

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