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iPhone 3.0 JavaScript Performance: 3-10x Increase

by Dan Grigsby on March 31, 2009 · 2 comments

Wayne Pan benchmarked JavaScript on the iPhone 3.0 beta as compared to the 2.2 release and found performance improvements of 3-10x for various calculations:

Wayne’s blog adds some details and includes a spreadsheet with the raw results.

It appears, based on research done by Ajaxian (using their Webkit detector) that 3.0 could be using the native-code generating Squirrelfish Extreme JavaScript interpreter.

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