The SunSpider JavaScript performance benchmark, devised by the developers of the WebKit browser engine, is used and quoted widely as a measure of browser scripting performance. A surprising result was ...

The SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite is more than five years old. That might as well be a million years as far as the web is involved. In those five years, JavaScript engines have become orders of ...

Apple's WebKit team has released a revamped new SunSpider 1.0 benchmark suite for profiling the performance of web browser JavaScript execution, replacing the 0.9 version initially released at the end ...

With all modern web browsers battling over JavaScript performance, there is a need for ways to reliably measure it. One benchmark that has proven very popular is SunSpider, created by the Webkit team.

It's hard to explain why a browser 'feels' better or faster than another, but it's very easy to compare clear numbers. Which is why benchmarks are always cited to 'show' that one browser is faster ...

A Mozilla engineer has uncovered an oddity with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 where one test that is part of the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark gives an odd, unexpected result. All three tests ...

Is browser performance affected by OS, CPU and the amount of RAM available? A comment made by dfolk in response to my Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 benchmarking post got me back to the lab to do some more ...

We've got quite a nice little look at the HTC Sensation, (previously known as the HTC Pyramid) and what do you know? We even have some benchmarks! These are all courtesy of our good fellow Chris ...

SunSpider results with the new V8 in Chrome 19 and 20 (Google) Google is bragging about a new improvement to the V8 JavaScript engine in Chrome. The engine can be considered state-of-the-art, but the ...

Unusual testing results have led to speculation that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 engineers are building the browser to return unusually high benchmark results, unwarranted by overall performance.

The SunSpider Javascript benchmark test has been run on the new iPhone 5 and it shows impressive speed improvements, reports AnandTech. The iPhone 5 scored 914.7ms compared to 2250ms for the iPhone 4S ...

The seventh IE version beats rivals on the SunSpider benchmark. But Microsoft doesn't like the test, and Mozilla doesn't like how Microsoft runs it. Microsoft has released a seventh test version of ...