Subj : Re: User Breakpoints ( int 3) from js_PurgeDeflatedStringCache
To   : Jaspreet
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Thu Jun 02 2005 11:55 am

Jaspreet wrote:

> I don't know if you might be interested in this.. but i am building a
> couple of prototypes.. partly with the objective of selecting a
> suitable ECMA interpreter for our development work.. so far the data
> shows that Spidermonkey is faster than a commercial library called
> ScriptEase... for our application anyway.... Do you have any pointers
> to performance related data comparing Spidermonkey with other
> Interpreters..


Very interesting.  Last I looked, NOMBAS (now part of a bigger company 
whose name escapes me at the moment) was still boasting that ScriptEase 
was faster than SpiderMonkey.

We do not generally benchmark or product-market SpiderMonkey against 
other JS engines.  We do try to respond to profile-based performance 
measurements of Mozilla, Firefox, and other such apps.  We are poor yet 
humble ;-).

If you have any benchmarks to share that show us doing well, please post 
them.  It would be fun to see how well we do without trying.  In some 
ways SpiderMonkey is the Rodney Dangerfield of JS engines.  We get no 
respect....

/be

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