Announcing JetStream 1.1
JetStream 1.1 fixes bugs in two existing tests and adds a new test to replace the oldest and smallest test in the latency component.
Introduction to WebKit Content Blockers
Describing content blocking rules in a structured format ahead-of-time, rather than running extension-provided code.
Introducing the JetStream Benchmark Suite
A new JavaScript benchmark test suite that codifies what our de facto process has been — to combine latency and throughput benchmarks.
Benchmark for Web App Responsiveness
Speedometer:
Benchmark for Web App Responsiveness
We are pleased to announce Speedometer, a new benchmark that measures the responsiveness of web applications.
Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT
Designed to bring aggressive C-like optimizations to the largest variety of JavaScript programs.
Overview of WebKit’s CSS JIT Compiler
Making CSS faster and more scalable is an area of research in the WebKit project.
Binary Size Matters
Unusual Speed Boost:
Binary Size Matters
One of my concerns last year was that while WebKit was getting faster on common benchmarks, some operations were getting slower as a byproduct of new features and optimizations.
Announcing SunSpider 1.0
The popular SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite was originally released by the WebKit team over five years ago, in December 2007.
On spinlocks and sleep()
Yes, we really did achieve a 3.7X speedup on a garbage collection benchmark by removing a call to sleep().
Announcing SunSpider 0.9.1
Today we’d like to announce SunSpider 0.9.1, a new version of the popular SunSpider JavaScript benchmark that improves accuracy of results.
Optimizing Page Loading in the Web Browser
It is well understood that page loading speed in a web browser is limited by the available connection bandwidth.