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Safari 4.0 out of beta, now even faster

Posted 06-09-2009 at 02:01 PM by benchmarker
Safari 4.0 moved out of beta yesterday and even though the version number remains the same 4.0, the new proper version (build 530.17) appears to be consistently faster in Peacekeeper than the beta versions (build 528.x).

We ran some tests with three separate systems and saw score increases ranging from 5% to 12%.

Examining the suite scores shows that the new version of...
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"Fastest Firefox ever" is barely half as fast as Safari

Posted 06-03-2009 at 04:00 PM by benchmarker
Mozilla’s new marketing campaign for Firefox 3.5 claims it’s two times faster than Firefox 3.0 and ten times faster than 2.0. The carefully worded marketing says it’s the fastest Firefox ever. But how fast is it really?

Results from the Peacekeeper browser benchmark show that Firefox 3.5 beta is barely half as fast as Safari 4 beta and about two thirds as fast as the latest...
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Peacekeeper moves out of beta

Posted 05-11-2009 at 04:32 PM by benchmarker
Peacekeeper is now out of the beta phase.

These are the major changes between the beta and current version (as of May 11th):

- Some of the tests have changed from the beta version and some tests have been removed, this affects scoring, so new Peacekeeper scores are not comparable to beta scores.

- Suite scores have been added. Different suite scores represent...
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Safari 4 vs. Chrome 2.x in Peacekeeper

Posted 03-20-2009 at 11:53 AM by benchmarker
Hello and welcome to the Peacekeeper -blog. This blog will serve as an outlet for any Peacekeeper related news and interesting statistics.

Users in the community forums raised suspicions about Safari 4.0 scoring better than Google Chrome in Peacekeeper compared to the established SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, so we decided to investigate differences between the two in the individual...
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