Wednesday, March 31, 2010

JavaScript Performance on Cortex-A8

You know, V8 by Google has the fastest JIT compiler. Many benchmarks get the top score on x86 environment. But how about on other CPU such as ARM? Any web sites don't research the benchmark on ARM.

I have a netbook using Freescale i.MX515. Although this net book "netwalker" is sold ($400?) at Japan market, I have tested Chromium 5.0 and Firefox 3.6 using Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) beta. This data is on this environment.

This is interesting... V8 on ARM isn't optimized!. They should improve it for mobile market.