Surfin’ Safari

Cameron Zwarich is now a qualified WebKit Reviewer. Cameron has been doing amazing work on the JavaScript implementation and was one of the core developers on the new bytecode engine. He has also branched out into other areas of the code and squashed bugs of all varieties. Please join me in congratulating Cameron on his [...]

“Hello, Internet!”
WebKit’s core JavaScript engine just got a new interpreter, code-named SquirrelFish.
SquirrelFish is fast—much faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter. Check out the numbers. On the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, SquirrelFish is 1.6 times faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter.
SunSpider runs per minute

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What Is SquirrelFish?
SquirrelFish is a register-based, direct-threaded, high-level bytecode engine, with a sliding [...]