ho provato il SunSpider Javascript Benchmark su http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspide...sunspider.html

e i risultati sono questi:

GOOGLE CHROME:

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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 3718.8ms +/- 2.4%
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3d: 253.6ms +/- 5.7%
cube: 67.4ms +/- 13.3%
morph: 105.8ms +/- 8.7%
raytrace: 80.4ms +/- 5.1%

access: 179.8ms +/- 5.9%
binary-trees: 11.0ms +/- 21.1%
fannkuch: 61.6ms +/- 5.5%
nbody: 63.4ms +/- 16.2%
nsieve: 43.8ms +/- 6.8%

bitops: 131.4ms +/- 5.1%
3bit-bits-in-byte: 7.4ms +/- 9.2%
bits-in-byte: 15.6ms +/- 14.5%
bitwise-and: 46.6ms +/- 3.0%
nsieve-bits: 61.8ms +/- 10.3%

controlflow: 4.6ms +/- 14.8%
recursive: 4.6ms +/- 14.8%

crypto: 114.0ms +/- 8.1%
aes: 45.4ms +/- 7.1%
md5: 37.6ms +/- 19.6%
sha1: 31.0ms +/- 4.9%

date: 822.4ms +/- 4.9%
format-tofte: 398.0ms +/- 4.6%
format-xparb: 424.4ms +/- 5.1%

math: 226.4ms +/- 3.7%
cordic: 122.0ms +/- 8.4%
partial-sums: 76.0ms +/- 23.4%
spectral-norm: 28.4ms +/- 9.6%

regexp: 814.6ms +/- 6.2%
dna: 814.6ms +/- 6.2%

string: 1172.0ms +/- 7.0%
base64: 124.2ms +/- 13.5%
fasta: 119.0ms +/- 19.5%
tagcloud: 320.4ms +/- 9.4%
unpack-code: 443.2ms +/- 14.1%
validate-input: 165.2ms +/- 8.8%

FIREFOX 3.0.1
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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total: 6822.0ms +/- 8.7%
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3d: 797.6ms +/- 7.1%
cube: 308.6ms +/- 19.4%
morph: 268.2ms +/- 1.9%
raytrace: 220.8ms +/- 0.9%

access: 1097.8ms +/- 1.4%
binary-trees: 84.6ms +/- 4.7%
fannkuch: 525.0ms +/- 2.2%
nbody: 284.0ms +/- 4.2%
nsieve: 204.2ms +/- 2.4%

bitops: 1014.8ms +/- 4.6%
3bit-bits-in-byte: 176.2ms +/- 4.7%
bits-in-byte: 267.0ms +/- 4.4%
bitwise-and: 236.0ms +/- 4.1%
nsieve-bits: 335.6ms +/- 14.0%

controlflow: 121.0ms +/- 31.4%
recursive: 121.0ms +/- 31.4%

crypto: 426.0ms +/- 1.5%
aes: 171.6ms +/- 2.2%
md5: 126.6ms +/- 2.8%
sha1: 127.8ms +/- 3.3%

date: 497.6ms +/- 29.1%
format-tofte: 338.4ms +/- 43.2%
format-xparb: 159.2ms +/- 6.9%

math: 878.4ms +/- 20.6%
cordic: 381.4ms +/- 6.7%
partial-sums: 265.8ms +/- 26.4%
spectral-norm: 231.2ms +/- 64.1%

regexp: 527.8ms +/- 16.4%
dna: 527.8ms +/- 16.4%

string: 1461.0ms +/- 15.9%
base64: 171.6ms +/- 18.4%
fasta: 344.0ms +/- 19.6%
tagcloud: 257.4ms +/- 14.5%
unpack-code: 486.2ms +/- 17.5%
validate-input: 201.8ms +/- 18.2%

INTERNET EXPLORER 7 si è piantato nel corso del test cmq aveva già risultati addirittura il doppio peggio di Firefox...

sembra che in Javascript il vantaggio di Chrome sia ENORME se non MOSTRUOSO...