Fastest web browser gets 60% improved in speed again
Safari browser is a great product from Apple Corporation, which is always famous by flawless technique and endless perfection-seeking spirit. Safari 3.1 has been the fastest browser in the world since released. We seldom heard of it just because it could only run on Apple Operation system.
This time, Safari develops a new technology called “SquirrelFish” in JavaScript engine, while in the past, safari used a WebKit based JavaScript engine. Experiments on SunSpider JavaScript performance tests showed that SquirrelFish engine is 1.6 times faster than WebKit in speed. Here is the experiments result:
About SquirrelFish
SquirrelFish is a register-based, direct-threaded, high-level bytecode engine, with a sliding register window calling convention. It lazily generates bytecodes from a syntax tree, using a simple one-pass compiler with built-in copy propagation.