More V8 - on an iMac

After running the V8 benchmark suite at work, I am repeating at home. Home means a iMac with a 2.93 GHz Intel Core 3 Duo with 4 GB. I'm running Leopard (10.5.7). This time, I was more interested in looking at the improvements in Firefox 3.5 relative to Firefox 3.

But first, here are the results for Safari 2, this time running on OS/X.

For some reason, Blogger reverses the order of the images, so here we have the results for Firefox 3.5. There are two runs, one under OS/X and the other on XP. The XP version is running under Parallels. It sure looks like the VM running XP is very efficient: the Firefox numbers are within a few percent. They are also twice as fast the Dell Optiplex at work, even if the memory and clock speeds are quite similar.

Finally, we see the results of the old Firefox 3. The upgrade almost doubled the speed. So kudos to the Firefox team for the improvement in JavaScript performance. But we still have to recognize that the Webkit-based browsers are really dominating the JavaScript performance numbers.