Comments on: Introducing SquirrelFish Extreme

By: markw1970

markw1970 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:45:41 +0000

What better way to test performance than in an old-school arcade game powered by JavaScript ?
Especially one that throws around DOM objects and references with some volume.

Here is a little something I’ve been developing.
http://www.rebelideas.co.uk/proto/test/

If you hit C (during the game) you get the console and then hit D to enter “flat out” mode to see just how fast the browser can crunch it.

I have been stunned at the speed bump in execution over recent months.
Hopefully it will encourage more developers to consider browser delivery with JS for games.

By: juandesant

juandesant — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:12:20 +0000

How does this compare to the polymorphic JS V8 engine of Google Code? Or is it that a joint Apple-Google contribution?

By: Maciej Stachowiak

Maciej Stachowiak — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:54:12 +0000

It’s not a fish, it’s a squirrelfish!

By: kgretton

kgretton — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:16:47 +0000

Great work on the CT-JIT.

PS. Is that really a fish or an ugly cat-fish crossbread?

By: Maciej Stachowiak

Maciej Stachowiak — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:55:11 +0000

I’m sure we could optimize XPath a bunch without a JIT. Do you have any specific test cases?

By: sjoerd_visscher

sjoerd_visscher — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:35:49 +0000

Could you do what you did with regular expression with xpath evaluation as well? Because xpath evaluation is quite slow compared to IE/MSXML.

By: iFrodo

iFrodo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:02:22 +0000

JUst out of crusiosity, don’t know if you can tell it yet but, will it be included in Safari 4.0 ??? 🙂