New Blog with New Design and Gatsby.js - Loving JavaScript Again Jan 20, 2019
In 2010 I set up this blog on Tumblr mostly due to the ease of publishing and not having to worry about the hosting. I also went through…
Today Opera has released its latest and greatest version of Opera browser 10.5 Beta for Mac. It features speed enhancement as well as a unified Cocoa interface. Just how speedy is it exactly? Let’s test it out against other major browsers.
The benchmarks were run on my Macbook Pro (OS X 10.6.2, 2.53GHz CPU, 4GB RAM). I have performed three benchmark tests from Dromaeo - All JavaScript Tests, DOM Core Tests and JavaScript Library Tests. The following browsers are used:
The benchmark result (the higher the better):
Opera is smoking fast for pure JavaScript execution, on the other hand its DOM performance is significant lower than its competitors.
Very interesting result, hey? ;)