I decided to test out some firefox speeds using the sunspider tests. I got some interesting results!
Nightly (6.0 alpha)
============================================ RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals) -------------------------------------------- Total: 1335.8ms +/- 0.2% --------------------------------------------3d: 188.1ms +/- 0.8%
cube: 70.5ms +/- 2.7%
morph: 55.6ms +/- 1.1%
raytrace: 62.0ms +/- 1.1%access: 327.7ms +/- 0.7%
binary-trees: 25.1ms +/- 0.9%
fannkuch: 185.7ms +/- 0.5%
nbody: 67.9ms +/- 2.3%
nsieve: 49.0ms +/- 1.0%bitops: 257.9ms +/- 0.3%
3bit-bits-in-byte: 43.4ms +/- 0.9%
bits-in-byte: 81.2ms +/- 0.6%
bitwise-and: 49.3ms +/- 0.7%
nsieve-bits: 84.0ms +/- 0.9%controlflow: 31.0ms +/- 1.5%
recursive: 31.0ms +/- 1.5%crypto: 116.1ms +/- 0.2%
aes: 48.1ms +/- 0.5%
md5: 32.0ms +/- 0.0%
sha1: 36.0ms +/- 0.0%date: 61.7ms +/- 1.3%
format-tofte: 35.8ms +/- 0.8%
format-xparb: 25.9ms +/- 2.4%math: 191.1ms +/- 1.0%
cordic: 99.7ms +/- 1.5%
partial-sums: 51.3ms +/- 0.9%
spectral-norm: 40.1ms +/- 1.8%regexp: 11.9ms +/- 4.4%
dna: 11.9ms +/- 4.4%string: 150.3ms +/- 1.8%
base64: 29.6ms +/- 1.2%
fasta: 47.3ms +/- 0.7%
tagcloud: 27.1ms +/- 1.5%
unpack-code: 21.3ms +/- 1.6%
validate-input: 25.0ms +/- 10.0%
Aurora (5.0 Alpha)
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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)Total: 1593.0ms +/- 0.3%
3d: 242.7ms +/- 0.8%
cube: 88.5ms +/- 1.2%
morph: 75.0ms +/- 1.7%
raytrace: 79.2ms +/- 0.4%access: 393.1ms +/- 0.9%
binary-trees: 29.2ms +/- 1.0%
fannkuch: 211.2ms +/- 0.3%
nbody: 99.3ms +/- 3.8%
nsieve: 53.4ms +/- 0.7%bitops: 300.7ms +/- 0.5%
3bit-bits-in-byte: 58.6ms +/- 0.9%
bits-in-byte: 83.9ms +/- 0.7%
bitwise-and: 62.0ms +/- 0.5%
nsieve-bits: 96.2ms +/- 0.5%controlflow: 38.9ms +/- 1.4%
recursive: 38.9ms +/- 1.4%crypto: 135.8ms +/- 0.5%
aes: 53.5ms +/- 0.7%
md5: 39.5ms +/- 1.0%
sha1: 42.8ms +/- 0.7%date: 68.0ms +/- 1.1%
format-tofte: 40.3ms +/- 0.9%
format-xparb: 27.7ms +/- 2.1%math: 237.1ms +/- 1.0%
cordic: 117.1ms +/- 0.5%
partial-sums: 66.0ms +/- 2.9%
spectral-norm: 54.0ms +/- 0.0%regexp: 11.8ms +/- 3.8%
dna: 11.8ms +/- 3.8%string: 164.9ms +/- 0.7%
base64: 33.9ms +/- 1.6%
fasta: 53.4ms +/- 0.7%
tagcloud: 28.9ms +/- 1.4%
unpack-code: 22.4ms +/- 1.6%
validate-input: 26.3ms +/- 4.4%
PaleMoon (4.0.5 x64)
============================================ RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals) -------------------------------------------- Total: 1598.9ms +/- 0.3% --------------------------------------------3d: 231.2ms +/- 1.0%
cube: 86.4ms +/- 2.2%
morph: 69.4ms +/- 1.4%
raytrace: 75.4ms +/- 0.7%access: 371.9ms +/- 0.5%
binary-trees: 35.6ms +/- 1.7%
fannkuch: 203.6ms +/- 0.7%
nbody: 78.4ms +/- 1.9%
nsieve: 54.3ms +/- 1.2%bitops: 301.5ms +/- 0.6%
3bit-bits-in-byte: 56.5ms +/- 1.1%
bits-in-byte: 85.7ms +/- 1.8%
bitwise-and: 59.9ms +/- 1.3%
nsieve-bits: 99.4ms +/- 1.1%controlflow: 39.9ms +/- 1.6%
recursive: 39.9ms +/- 1.6%crypto: 138.8ms +/- 0.5%
aes: 55.6ms +/- 0.7%
md5: 40.4ms +/- 0.9%
sha1: 42.8ms +/- 0.7%date: 82.9ms +/- 0.9%
format-tofte: 50.9ms +/- 1.7%
format-xparb: 32.0ms +/- 1.8%math: 221.3ms +/- 0.7%
cordic: 113.8ms +/- 0.6%
partial-sums: 58.1ms +/- 2.3%
spectral-norm: 49.4ms +/- 1.8%regexp: 12.0ms +/- 4.0%
dna: 12.0ms +/- 4.0%string: 199.4ms +/- 1.1%
base64: 34.1ms +/- 1.5%
fasta: 64.0ms +/- 1.7%
tagcloud: 38.1ms +/- 1.4%
unpack-code: 32.3ms +/- 1.1%
validate-input: 30.9ms +/- 8.0%
I know browser benchmarks need to be taken with a grain of salt, but it's interesting to see that 6.0 seems to out preform Palemoon, which is optimized for speed.
System specs, since it's probably relevant: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14823386/2011-05-06_221026.png
