Try the JSbench test. http://www.24fun.com/downloadcenter/benchjs/benchjs.html
Before this update 180 secs. After 160s. So, some improvement.
Then I tried it for the first time with the Opera browser. 22 secs...
Blimey...
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Safari is the bottleneck - APGiuliano
Safari, being a Cocoa based application is "forced" to use the Java 1.4.2 Opera and others (except for Shiira) are Carbon based and do not use Java 1.4.2, they fall back to 1.3.1 Shiira "fails" the bench test you post miserably as well, but other browsers from Mozilla to iCab perform well, simply because of the lower end JavaReply to This
Wednesday, August 11 2004 @ 07:30 PM PDT