Browser Wars:WebKit Released SquirrelFish Extreme JavaScript engine

When Google released Chrome just a few weeks ago, we praised it for its innovative user interface and the speed of its JavaScript rendering engine, which blew away the competition. Now the WebKit programmers, whose open-source code is used in Apple’s Safari browser and the Konqueror browser of the KDE interface software sometimes used on Linux systems, Released a new version of their JavaScript technology.

It’s called Squirrelfish Extreme(or SFX for short), and the WebKit programmers said Thursday in a blog posting that it’s more than twice as fast as the first-generation Squirrelfish announced in June and more than three times faster than the current WebKit 3.1 version. They based their conclusions on one benchmark, SunSpider.

In case you want to try these benchmarks for yourself, you can download the latest version of WebKit with SquirrelFish Extreme from here.

While Chrome is based on WebKit, Google replaced the SquirrelFish with V8 JavaScript engine, a brand new engine, which, according to Google, makes better use of modern, multi-core processors than its predecessors.

For More details of Squirrelfish’s techniques—-check the WebKit blog.