Comments on: Announcing SquirrelFish

By: Maya

Maya — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:13:19 +0000

The secret behind isn’t LNVM, it’s just Forth. It is the know how of this some people well known programming languge. If you hear about M. Anton Ertl and David Gregg, and about a very fast direct-threaded interpreted (may be byte code or not), it is clear,. it is Forth-know-how. I’m absolutly sure.

Some Forth systems are the fastest threaded code and even direct-threaded code interpreter (als virtual stack machines) available. Know how coming from here speeds up SquirrelFish.

By: mcroft

mcroft — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:04:45 +0000

I got SunSpider 0.9 to run on MobileSafari 2.

Summary and comparison to WebKit post-SquirrelFish and IE7 on my 6 month old Thinkpad…
Totals:
iPhone: 148752.0ms +/- 3.9%
WebKit: 2152.0ms +/- 1.7%
IE 7 : 35659.8ms +/- 3.4%

iPhone JavaScript is 4.17 times slower than IE7
iPhone Javascript is 69.1 times slower than WebKit Nightly
Internet Explorer 7 is 16.6 times slower than WebKit Nightly

Detailed Results

By: David Smith

David Smith — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:19:50 +0000

dicklacara: probably not. The compilation time is pretty minimal, and that would make it so that the bytecode format couldn’t be upgraded in the future, which would make further performance gains harder.

By: dicklacara

dicklacara — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:04:21 +0000

Wouldn’t there be a potentially large performance gain by:

1) pre-compiling the bytecode on the server
2) serving the bytecode and byte code interpreter, only, to the client
3) interpreting the bytecode on the client

By: brunobl

brunobl — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:15:26 +0000

It would be great to also work on memory leaks 🙂
http://dotnetperls.com/Content/Browser-Memory.aspx

By: Arley23

Arley23 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:19:43 +0000

Is it just me or has Webkit for Windows hasn’t worked since June 09???

By: some1

some1 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:16:00 +0000

Hey Apple team, I beg you to develop an updater for Safari for Windows that just updates the changed bits i.e. patches the existing install instead of downloading the whole thing again, uninstalling and reinstalling. As a user, it’s one thing keeping me away from consistently using Safari because when a vulnerability is detected, I can’t continue to use the old version and I am unable to download large files everytime.

By: dak

dak — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:13:52 +0000

The numbers for SquirrelFish look pretty impressive. It seems on yesterday I was reading about its development, but there was no expectation it would be merged into WebKit anytime soon.

Speaking of other advancements, is there any chance we’ll see a blog post about the new CSS variable support added to build 34666?

By: Chad von Nau

Chad von Nau — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:51:47 +0000

There is a bootleg store in China called “Squirrel–shaped Fish”. In China it’s standard procedure for stores to illegally use names and logos from large international brands. With this store, they stole the Lacoste alligator logo, but made their own name. Pretty genius. I don’t know if this was the inspiration for the name squirrel fish, but it should be.

http://chadvonnau.com/china/4/15.IMG_4485_bootlegs.jpg

By: Maciej Stachowiak

Maciej Stachowiak — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:25:58 +0000

@eflaten

I would love to see profile data for any page where CPU usage is out of control, especially if it does not appear to be Flash. Even if it is Flash, we can pass the data on to Adobe.