It looks like Apple's Safari web browser, once claimed by a certain someone (read: Steve Jobs) to be the fastest web browser out there, is going to get even faster. Over at Computerworld, they've been running the latest builds of WebKit (the rendering engine used in Safari), and they are significantly impressed at the speed boosts.
In testing with Sunspider, a three minute Javascript benchmarking test, the newest Webkit was 2.5 times faster than Safari. SlickSpeed, another rendering test, showed the same thing. In other words: "It's gone to plaid!"
If you're innately skeptical of such benchmarks, you can download and test the WebKit Nightly builds on your own machine. The nice thing is that all of your bookmarks, history, cookies, etc. move from Safari to Webkit, so working with Webkit will be easy and familiar.
[Via Computerworld]
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2-12-2008 @ 3:24PM
dwesnor said...
So now, after waiting 5 seconds for the tubes to deliver the data, my web pages will render in 1 microsecond instead of 2.5 microseconds. That might amount to 1 millisecond each day. I'll have to figure out what I'm going to do with all that free time.
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2-12-2008 @ 6:03PM
Jaime said...
a little immature but i havent had an lol in a while! nice!
2-12-2008 @ 3:28PM
cdavenport4 said...
I've been testing WebKit as well. Not to say that I'm a professional tester here but, I have noticed a considerable speed increase. At this point I'm loving. The one thing I'm concerned with is security. In other words will it be just as secure?
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