The JavaScript race

There sure is a lot going on with JavaScript these days: first v8 - Google’s new OSS implementation, and now SFX - the next incarnation of WebKit’s SquirrelFish. Here’s a comparison of a couple of implementations:

SquirrelFish Extreme: 943.3 ms, V8: 1280.6 ms, TraceMonkey: 1464.6 ms

Given the fact that JS is part of just about every web browser by now, it looks like this modern dynamic, ehm... scripting language is becoming seriously mainstream.