sunspider

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SunSpider, Octane, and Kraken are all pure JavaScript benchmarks, very microbenchmarky (look at bitwise-and in the SunSpider suite).

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Alternative form of sun spider. [Synonym of camel spider.]

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noun

Alternative form of sun spider. [Synonym of camel spider.]

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Core meanings and parts of speech for sunspider.

noun

Alternative form of sun spider. [Synonym of camel spider.]

Example sentences

SunSpider, Octane, and Kraken are all pure JavaScript benchmarks, very microbenchmarky (look at bitwise-and in the SunSpider suite).

You have no idea how tight the performance margins are on SunSpider and the V8 benchmarks, for example.

His tests show that Edge is faster on SunSpider/Octane, but not by the margin that Microsoft suggested.

Adding 2 instructions to every array operation would probably kill your engine's relative SunSpider or V8 score.

In particular, Chrome stopped optimizing for SunSpider with their last JIT, as they optimized for longer running apps (such as ones you'd find on the web) but took a hit on SunSpider.

Real-world max for single-thread speedup is probably the 3x quoted for the cache-busting SunSpider benchmark, with around 1.5x being more common.

All benchmarks are bad and suffer real problems, but SunSpider more than most.

I think instead they worked in JavaScript performance, so in js benchmarks like sunspider and octane they do well.

SunSpider is about one thing and one thing only — cold code performance.

The SunSpider benchmark is bullshit, and you shouldn't take anything from it.

Yeah it seems rather ridiculous to me that Firefox isn't mentioned here -- Firefox consistently beats Chrome on the three major benchmarks (SunSpider, Octane, and Kraken).

Chakra, Spartan's JS engine, has long been good on SunSpider.

Quote examples

For example, Octane contains "Code loading", sunspider has "code decompression" (not true code loading, but at least it does de-minification).

Google’s Chrome, on the other hand, forced the laptop to tap out at 9 hours and 45 minutes." "The widely used SunSpider browser benchmark clocks the MacBook Pro in at 203ms when using Chrome.

Proper noun examples

Sunspider does next to no processing, it's really not a good benchmark for judging computation speed of a device.

Sunspider came out at roughly 1600ms, which places the mid-2013 Alcatel somewhere in the performance bracket of an iPhone 4 (mid-2010, flagship device).

My belief is that they'll continue to improve the standards, but will devote, say, %20 of their efforts to it, until their javascript engine and css rendering layout engine is humming in tune with V8 and Sunspider.