Speed Compasion between chrome and other I.E

http://www.cnet.com.au/software/internet/0,239029524,339291767,00.htm

Google introduced Chrome in part because it wants faster browsing and the richer Web applications that speed will unlock. So how does Chrome actually stack up?


Google's Chrome overpowers the other browsers on the five subtests by which Google measures its browser's JavaScript performance.
(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News)

Lars Bak, the Google engineer who was the technical leader for Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, said at the launch event Tuesday he's confident Chrome is "many times faster" than the rivals at running JavaScript, the programming language that powers Google Docs, Gmail, and many other Web applications.

But when pressed for specifics, he told us to try them out. So we did.

Google offers a site with five JavaScript benchmarks. On each one of these tests, Chrome clearly trounced the competition. We hoped benchmarking experts and developers will weigh in with comments about how well these tests represent true JavaScript performance on the Web — either for ordinary sites or for rich Web apps.

Here's the site description of the speed tests:
Richards: OS kernel simulation benchmark, originally written in BCPL by Martin Richards (539 lines).
DeltaBlue: One-way constraint solver, originally written in Smalltalk by John Maloney and Mario Wolczko (880 lines).
Crypto: Encryption and decryption benchmark based on code by Tom Wu (1,689 lines).
RayTrace: Ray tracer benchmark based on code by Adam Burmister (3,418 lines).
EarleyBoyer: Classic Scheme benchmarks, translated to JavaScript by Florian Loitsch's Scheme2Js compiler (4,682 lines).

Google's overall score is head and shoulders above the competition for executing JavaScript. (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News)

A few notes: first, your mileage may vary; we ran these tests on a dual-core Windows XP machine.

Second, we apologise to Opera, whose browser we didn't have installed.

Third, we tried to run the SunSpider benchmark tests as well, but perhaps because a lot of other curious people had the same idea on the day Chrome launched, we couldn't get to the site.

 

Hm... I might try out chrome someday, but for now I'll stick with FF3.

I laughed so hard at my friend when they were using chrome and couldn't even access Facebook because it wasn't supported. ROFLMAO

I guess only time will tell as to how good chrome will be...

 

Hmm...a benchmark test....by the company who made the browser....for their own browser vs others....Im sure the test was absolutely impartial right? Also, speed with java apps is nice, but when you consider how many other things are needed in a browser, this alone isnt impressive...not even a little.

 

I can use Facebook on Chrome.

 

I wouldn't say that it's unimpressive. It's pretty hard to cheat a benchmark to such an extent that your product is many times faster than the competition.

Also, I have also had no problems on Facebook using Chrome, but if some people are having compatibility problems, they need to be fixed, as a browser should work for everyone.