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Re: Chrome II

The results are impressive on first sight, but JavaScript performance is not everything. Recently I read an interesting article about the performance considerations of IE 8:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/08/26/ie8-performance.aspx

They found that when using common Ajax applications the CPU spends only about a third of the clylces executing Javascript/DOM. More than 36% of the cycles are used for CSS formatting.

That's the reason why IE 8 does not compare well in JScript performance. They could have implemented a JScript JIT compiler, but I'm glad they didn't and tried to see the whole picture.