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Google Chrome 2 is 20% faster than Chrome 1 in physical speed tests
We've moved our Web browser test platform from the virtual world to the real world, and Google Chrome 2 benefited most from the transition.
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published May 22, 2009, 10:34 PM
Yesterday, Google traded development track 1 of its Chrome Web browser for track 2, making the latter effectively the "stable" edition of the browser, even though it's still officially under development and not yet feature-complete. Many users of version 1 found themselves automatically upgraded to version 2, and may very well have noticed a subsequent speed increase from the JavaScript interpreter.
In a blog post yesterday, Google said that speed increase would be about 30%. But is that an accurate assessment, especially given that Google's V8 JavaScript benchmark was devised by Google to test its V8 JavaScript interpreter?
On Betanews' new physical test platform for Windows-based Web browsers and operating systems, whose construction was completed Friday, our latest tests show that Chrome 2.0.177.1 was 20.4% faster than Chrome 1.0.154.65, in independent benchmarks other than V8 related specifically to speed. Our adjusted performance score for Chrome 2 on our new platform was 21.4% better than Chrome 1, relative to the performance of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on the same system.
More:
http://www.betanews.com/article/Google-Chr...ests/1243046066
We've moved our Web browser test platform from the virtual world to the real world, and Google Chrome 2 benefited most from the transition.
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published May 22, 2009, 10:34 PM
Yesterday, Google traded development track 1 of its Chrome Web browser for track 2, making the latter effectively the "stable" edition of the browser, even though it's still officially under development and not yet feature-complete. Many users of version 1 found themselves automatically upgraded to version 2, and may very well have noticed a subsequent speed increase from the JavaScript interpreter.
In a blog post yesterday, Google said that speed increase would be about 30%. But is that an accurate assessment, especially given that Google's V8 JavaScript benchmark was devised by Google to test its V8 JavaScript interpreter?
On Betanews' new physical test platform for Windows-based Web browsers and operating systems, whose construction was completed Friday, our latest tests show that Chrome 2.0.177.1 was 20.4% faster than Chrome 1.0.154.65, in independent benchmarks other than V8 related specifically to speed. Our adjusted performance score for Chrome 2 on our new platform was 21.4% better than Chrome 1, relative to the performance of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on the same system.
More:
http://www.betanews.com/article/Google-Chr...ests/1243046066