On 6 May 2013 19:52, Stefan Krause <[email protected]> wrote:
> A few days ago I found a nice article about Dart vs. Java performance:
> http://dartogreniyorum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/performance-optimization-and-dart.html
> I wanted to check how well V8 is doing with this benchmark, so I converted
> to Java code to Javascript, but I ran into an issue I don't understand.
>
> If I execute the javascript code with node.js or with a V8 custom build (git
> master) the code runs in less than two seconds (V8 32 bit: 1197 msecs, V8 64
> bit: 1549 msecs, node.js 64 bit: 1341 msecs). If I run it in the browser is
> takes more than seven seconds (28.0.1499.0 canary : 7580 msecs, 27.0.1453.73
> beta: 7707 msecs) all on a MBP with OSX 10.8.3.
>
> The code stresses typed arrays (mostly Float64Array) quite heavily. What
> could explain that large difference?

For historic reasons, Chrome currently uses a completely different
implementation for typed arrays than the D8 shell (and presumably,
Node). We are working on unifying these implementations right now, and
that should provide a significant performance boost, especially over
the current Chrome implementation.

/Andreas

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