Dan Smith, the Tamarin module owner, was kind enough to share with Clipperz the first official benchmarks of Tamarin vs. SpiderMonkey! These numbers are a very good indicator of the benefits that Tamarin could bring to Mozilla-based products. Dan says:
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Browsers did not anticipate the rapid surge of Ajax applications and they are increasingly slow to render Ajax-ed websites. They used to be snappy and responsive, now it’s quite easy to find yourself typing in a text area at the amazing speed of 1 character per second. A new quad-core processor or the latest version of your favorite OS can do nothing to change this.
