September 2nd, 2008

Google Chrome is insanely fast ... faster than Firefox 3.0

Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 12:59 pm

Categories: On the test bench, Software

Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Google Chrome is fast … insanely fast … faster than Firefox 3.0.

Here’s Chrome vs. Firefox 3.0.1 vs IE7 vs. IE8b2 in a head-to-head shootout running the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark.

Here Google Chrome completed the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark in a average of 1,791 milliseconds, nearly half the time that Firefox 3.0.1 took to complete the test. In this test Google Chrome absolutely blows away IE.

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Let’s see how the browsers compare to each other when tested using the V8 benchmark suite. This suite carried out five tests:

• Richards
  OS kernel simulation benchmark, originally written in BCPL by Martin Richards (539 lines).
• DeltaBlue
  One-way constraint solver, originally written in Smalltalk by John Maloney and Mario Wolczko (880 lines).
• Crypto
  Encryption and decryption benchmark based on code by Tom Wu (1689 lines).
• RayTrace
  Ray tracer benchmark based on code by Adam Burmister (3418 lines).
• EarleyBoyer
  Classic Scheme benchmarks, translated to JavaScript by Florian Loitsch’s Scheme2Js compiler (4682 lines).

With this benchmark, the higher the score, the better …

As you can see, Google Chrome savagely beats all the opposition running the V8 benchmark suite a whopping ten times faster than Firefox 3.0.

Google Chrome certainly has delivered on the speed it promised, and so far testing indicates that the browser is very robust - over the past few hours I’ve been hammering it very hard and I’ve yet to have a crash.

Here’s a single Google Chrome Window with 70+ tabs open and the browser is still nice and responsive and there’s not even a hint that it’s struggling under the weight of the open tabs.