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It looks like Apple's Safari web browser, once claimed by a certain someone (read: Steve Jobs) to be the fastest web browser out there, is going to get even faster. Over at Computerworld, they've been running the latest builds of WebKit (the rendering engine used in Safari), and they are significantly impressed at the speed boosts.
In testing with Sunspider, a three minute Javascript benchmarking test, the newest Webkit was 2.5 times faster than Safari. SlickSpeed, another rendering test, showed the same thing. In other words: "It's gone to plaid!"
If you're innately skeptical of such benchmarks, you can download and test the WebKit Nightly builds on your own machine. The nice thing is that all of your bookmarks, history, cookies, etc. move from Safari to Webkit, so working with Webkit will be easy and familiar.
[Via Computerworld]
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Subscribe to commentsdwesnorFeb 12th 2008 3:24PM
So now, after waiting 5 seconds for the tubes to deliver the data, my web pages will render in 1 microsecond instead of 2.5 microseconds. That might amount to 1 millisecond each day. I'll have to figure out what I'm going to do with all that free time.
JaimeFeb 12th 2008 6:03PM
a little immature but i havent had an lol in a while! nice!
cdavenport4Feb 12th 2008 3:28PM
I've been testing WebKit as well. Not to say that I'm a professional tester here but, I have noticed a considerable speed increase. At this point I'm loving. The one thing I'm concerned with is security. In other words will it be just as secure?