Comments on: JavaScript 3-10x Faster On iPhone OS 3.0

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 22 May 2010 10:58:08 +0000

Just wondering - what's the OS 4.0 speedup for javascript, in light of Froyo?

By: TurboDad

TurboDad — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:43:50 +0000

Unfortunately all I’ve noticed is a measurable slowdown in performance in virtually every app I use on the iPhone 3G.

By: Javascript 3x to 10x faster on iPhone OS 3.0 | PointAbout: Mobilize Your Brand

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:51:32 +0000

[...] release of the iPhone OS 3.0 seems to indicate some vastly improved javascript rendering speeds. Here is an article that purports to show speed increases of 3x to 10x with the new OS. This is great for PointAbout [...]

By: Bleawnuttelay

Bleawnuttelay — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:24:06 +0000

nice, really nice!

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Hybrid Squirrels Powering New iPhone? | The Minority Report — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:25:40 +0000

[...] JavaScript 3-10x Faster On iPhone OS 3.0Expectations are that the performance enhancements found in iPhone 3.0 are due to the inclusion of the SquirrelFish engine, leading to faster web site browsing and snappier web app performance. The…http://theappleblog.com [...]

By: Markus Zeller

Markus Zeller — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:00:53 +0000

I did not notice at all that it is/was slow.

By: Murmp - JavaScript 3-10x Faster On iPhone OS 3.0

Murmp - JavaScript 3-10x Faster On iPhone OS 3.0 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:12:39 +0000

[...] JavaScript 3-10x Faster On iPhone OS 3.0 Submitted 11 seconds ago by sweeneytodd Tags: browsers! iphone! iphone os3! javascript! There has been a reasonable amount of speculation surrounding JavaScript speed improvements in iPhone 3.0. Testing carried out on the iPhone Simulator bundled with the SDK didn’t lead to a conclusive outcome, but benchmarking done by Wayne Pan would seem to suggest that iPhone 3.0 handles JavaScript 3x-10x faster than iPhone 2.1. [...]

By: devit1104

devit1104 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:58:15 +0000

Thanx 4 SHARING…Nice Info!!

By: JavaScript is improved in latest iPhone….as expected | PointAbout: Mobilize Your Brand

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:18:54 +0000

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By: Werra

Werra — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:16:48 +0000

Huh. Funny that they compare their beta to two aging browsers, rather than IE8 or Firefox 3.5.

By: Eevee

Eevee — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:39:00 +0000

I am aware that they weren’t shipping products, but Safari’s beta isn’t a shipping product, either, so what does that matter? IE8 is now out, and Firefox 3.5 is in late beta. Why is Apple comparing their beta browser to old releases of other browsers that are known to be improving Javascript speed? These artificially inflated numbers are worthless.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:25:31 +0000

Eevee — neither IE8 nor Firefox 3.5 were shipping products at the time of the Safari beta release. If they want to compare performance to browsers that most users are actually using, those would be IE7 and Firefox 3.0.x.

Apple blog people — “This is even more important on a mobile device, where connection speed is far more limited than on most desktop machines.” This sentence makes no sense — the speed of the rendering engine has nothing to do with the connection speed. If a page is 300k, it takes the same time to download no matter what. The rendering engine just speeds up what happens after the connection has delivered all the content.

By: Eevee

Eevee — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:38:13 +0000

Huh. Funny that they compare their beta to two aging browsers, rather than IE8 or Firefox 3.5.

By: virtual web symphony

virtual web symphony — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:52:50 +0000

Safari 4 beta was initially touted and labeled as the fastest browser on the planet earth. But I have observed that in addition to JavaScript rendering there are many issues which decides stability of a browser. Google Chrome has been gaining ground in popularities probably at the cost of IE & Firefox.

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Bookmarks vom 28-03-2009 — ErkenntnisWerk — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:30:11 +0000

[...] JavaScript 3-10x Faster On iPhone OS 3.0 There has been a reasonable amount of speculation surrounding JavaScript speed improvements in iPhone 3.0. Testing carried out on the iPhone Simulator bundled with the SDK didn’t lead to a conclusive outcome, but benchmarking done by Wayne Pan would seem to suggest that iPhone 3.0 handles JavaScript 3x-10x faster than iPhone 2.1. (Tags: java iphone) [...]