SquirrelFish and SpiderMonkey play with SunSpider
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 2:53PM How many awesome names can we have? LOL I love these hybrid animals. A comment on Slashdot says its like the new Web 2.0 naming scheme. Reminds me of SpiderPig! Anyway, the Webkit guys released their new JavaScript Interpreter, squirrelfish. The benchmarks show that it is pretty fast. Cameron has a post detailing the overall picture, but what about the micro picture? The following is a graph of each SunSpider test run on SquirrelFish(WebKit-r34342) and SpiderMonkey 1.8 (built on May 22 2008 at 13:31:57). The shorter the bar the better.
If you wish to rerun these tests, heres how to build WebKit. If you specifically want to build just SquirrelFish, use the following command:
1) WebKitTools/Scripts/build-testkjs
2) The binary is /WebKitBuild/Release/testkjs
Props to the webkit guys.
* Edit as Mark mentioned. All tests run on OS X 10.5.3 on a Macbook Pro 2.4 ghz w/ 2 gigs of ram. Both interpreters were built on my machine with optimizations/release build.
Benchmarks, JavaScript, SpiderMonkey, SquirrelFish 
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For sake of completeness, which platform did you test on? Did you compile each yourself, or use a downloadable pre-compiled build?
Yeah did you compile each one yourself or what?
What's for dinner tonight??
Where did you find build-testkjs? It's not in today's nightly tar ball.