Which is fastest?

[Winapp2.ini]

I decided to test out some firefox speeds using the sunspider tests. I got some interesting results!

 

Nightly (6.0 alpha)

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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total:                 1335.8ms +/- 0.2%
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 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)
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Total:                 1593.0ms +/- 0.3%
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 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)

 

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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
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Total:                 1598.9ms +/- 0.3%
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 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

[redhawk]

but they'll all fall over when you start using Adobe Flash

 

Richard S.

[Aethec]

Out of curiosity, how does it compare witt other browsers (since you're using Win7, I assume you've got IE9 installed) ?