Filed under: Internet, Apple, Freeware, Beta, Browsers
Hype Check: Safari 4 can't beat Google Chrome
Perhaps they're referring to a different world. On the planet Earth, however, Safari 4 still can't surpass Google Chrome on the Sunspider, V8, or Dromaeo browser benchmarks.
If you'd like to see how it stacks up, take a look at my comparatives from Dromaeo - Safari 4 is the column labeled Webkit 528.16. Other browsers used were Chrome 2.0.160.0 (labeled Webkit 530), Chrome 1.0.154.48 (labeled Webkit 525), Firefox 3.0.6, Firefox 3.1 (labeled 60780) with Tracemonkey enabled, Opera 9.63, and Opera 10. It's no longer news how slow Internet Explorer (both 7 and 8) are at processing Javascript, so I haven't included its results here. Tests were run on an AMD quad 9550 with 4gb of memory running Windows Vista Ultimate x64.s?
Ugly graphs after the break...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
