Daniel Hendrycks - Carakan's Speed Improvements

Carakan's Speed Improvements

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 2:10:25 AM

Carakan, the new ECMAScript engine from Opera has proved to be faster than all it's competition. I have monitored the speed improvements of Carakan throughout the 10.5 release cycle. Here is a fancy little table showing Carakan's improvements:

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/9939/chartuo.png

Note: This be on FavBrowser later.

If I were Opera nowInternet Again!

Comments

Andrew NguyenSouthernCross # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 3:11:14 AM

Mağruf ÇolakoğluZAHEK # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 2:40:34 PM

http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/ThumbsUp.gif -
Great thanks.

Jan Frode Høinesmaake93 # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 4:57:56 PM

Great work!

Jan Frode Høinesmaake93 # Tuesday, March 2, 2010 4:58:01 PM

Great work!

Jimtoyotabedzrock # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 1:52:25 AM

Awesome I was hoping someone was keeping track of this!

Galileo # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 11:25:01 AM

Good job

David Tsunamydavidtsunamy # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 11:26:57 AM

Nice!!!! Waiting for mac release!!!

Tamil # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 11:31:40 AM

askold.uaixaskolduaix # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 11:32:46 AM

суперово.

Ide StoutjesdijkCrimi # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 11:38:48 AM

Some Beta's where faster then the final

jacobianjacobian64 # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 11:44:01 AM

wow this is just really great,I love opera then. :-)

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 11:45:47 AM

Good stuff Daniel! I cross posted this article on Choose Opera.

Abhinavdecodedthought # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 12:03:38 PM

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 12:35:18 PM

*Fixed Typos*

Charles SchlossChas4 # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 2:09:57 PM

Unregistered user # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 2:28:36 PM

warpdesign writes: What about V8 ? Seems like Opera is till lagging behind Chrome in this one... I know Chrome's JS engine must be optmized for this one, but well, if Opera is the fastest, it should be faster with this one as well, right ? :)

Pallab DeIndyan # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 3:41:22 PM

Interesting chart. I didn't realise that Opera has actually gotten faster since the pre-alpha build. Btw, you have an awesome blog.

bhsand # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 3:44:46 PM

Would you mind running the tests on a 10.00 and 10.10 install for reference? It'll probably be immensely more impressive as well.

FreeBrain # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 10:19:59 PM

Great iniciative Daniel!

d4rkn1ght # Wednesday, March 3, 2010 10:55:13 PM

Justin Steppriotryan18 # Thursday, March 4, 2010 1:10:34 AM

Glad that its finally more noticeably faster than chrome. Here on my end anyways. Good job dude.

Purdi # Thursday, March 4, 2010 9:51:34 AM

Originally posted by anonymous:

What about V8 ? Seems like Opera is till lagging behind Chrome in this one...

Not really. It's just that Google is cheating by keeping out exactly the stuff Chrome is slow at, so it looks like Chrome is amazingly fast. If Google had been honest enough to include everything, Opera would have won by a huge margin.

So much for "don't be evil".

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Friday, March 5, 2010 4:51:39 AM

...remember that idiot on cNet, who showed a graph only for Dromaeo's DOM rather than the whole benchmark?

Well anyways, these numbers are a great reference. Possibly more useful than BetaNews, given they stick to a moving target. Most troubling is Opera's notion that lots of optimization may remain to be done.

Krio LythKriolyth # Sunday, March 14, 2010 1:19:57 AM

Could you add 10.51 RC too, please?

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Sunday, March 14, 2010 1:22:50 AM

Originally posted by Krio Lyth:

Could you add 10.51 RC too, please?

I'm not sure if I'll continue. I might do this again, like during the Opera 11 release cycle, who knows?
Reasons:

The benchmark itself might change anytime soon, making all results invalid
That's quite a commitment to keep doing it for the next years
I might get a new computer within that time

Constant updates may not be a good idea. But for every major release, maybe.

Charles SchlossChas4 # Sunday, March 14, 2010 3:00:00 AM

Plus if they do what they did before with 4 new builds in 3 days...

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Sunday, March 14, 2010 3:01:57 AM

Originally posted by Charles Schloss:

Plus if they do what they did before with 4 new builds in 3 days...

Yup, that was pretty bad.

Cutting Spoonhellspork # Monday, March 15, 2010 6:14:57 PM

http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/results.action?key=38gY

Not sure if this was also OperaDrBruce, but his earlier link now shows a mind-boggling 10,102 for 10.51

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks # Monday, March 15, 2010 11:29:01 PM

Originally posted by Cutting Spoon: