Just when it was looking like Google Chrome couldn’t get any faster, a new beta shows up and shatters that impression. On Thursday, the search titan announced a new Chrome 10 beta that boosts JavaScript performance by a substantial 66 percent, as measured by Google’s own V8 benchmark, and implements GPU-accelerated video playing. The beta also changes the way users set options, and lets them sync passwords.
In my own speed tests on a 2.6-GHz dual-core laptop, Chrome 10 beta showed significant improvements on Google’s VE benchmark and Mozilla’s Kraken, but on Webkit’s SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark, it was nearly identical, and still trailed Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate’s 231ms. Here are my results, showing how Chrome 10 improves on 9:
Benchmark Chrome 9 Chrome 10 Beta Percent Change
Google V8 v6 (higher is better) 5164 8294 +61
Mozilla Kraken (ms—lower is better) 15657 8541 +45
SunSpider 0.9.1 (ms—lower is better) 286 284 >1
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