V8 and JavaScriptCore are really, really fast

JavaScript was born in 1995. Still, on the JavaScript VM scene three months is a lifetime. As Mark Rowe commented, I benchmarked a nightly V8 against a three months old JavaScriptCore (SquirrelFish). Which turned out to be unfair. Read the previous post for more information. Here's a new short version and new results:

On my machine given my unscientific measurements in Q2 2009:
V8 and JavaScriptCore are really, really fast.
TraceMonkey is fast, but often far behind really, really fast.

V8: Chromium 3.0.182 (182.0) snapshot 16837 23 May 2009
TraceMonkey: Firefox 3.6a1pre nightly latest-trunk 22 May 2009
JavaScriptCore (SquirrelFish extreme): WebKit r44078 nightly 23 May 2009

• Dromaeo JavaScript Tests (higher is better):
  
  • V8: 175 runs/s
    
  • JavaScriptCore: 195 runs/s
  • TraceMonkey: 53 runs/s
    
• V8 Benchmark Suite version 4 (higher is better):
• V8: 2324
• JavaScriptCore: 1882
  
• TraceMonkey: 289
• V8 Benchmark Suite version 3 (higher is better):
• V8: 2109
• JavaScriptCore: 2079
  
• TraceMonkey: 281
• SunSpider 0.9 (lower is better):
• V8: 859ms
  
• JavaScriptCore: 860ms
  
• TraceMonkey:1430ms

For the SunSpider bars lower is better, for the others higher is better. Read the previous post for more information.