Google Chrome, Chromium, and V8
Written by on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 in 100.
It is really exciting to see the level of pace that browsers have been setting recently, especially with respect to performance.
I have been able to keep in sync with Google Chrome the new browser, and Chromium, the open source code-base it comes from. There are a couple of innovations that have been great to see such as the multiple process model for tabs and windows, the unified tab and search functionality, and at the core, V8.
V8 is the super-speedy JavaScript VM by Lars Bak of Sun HotSpot fame. When you run JavaScript benchmarks on this puppy, you see very speedy responses indeed. The V8 part of the comic says it well:
Some of the core technology is also exciting to geeks. For example, as this code is operating system neutral we use the Skia Graphic Library (SGL) used by the Android team.
What about the process manager? John Resig has interesting thoughts on that with the rub: “The blame of bad performance or memory consumption no longer lies with the browser but with the site.”
Alex Russell also has some good thoughts on the importance of Chrome, and Christopher Blizzard (Mozilla) also has some thoughts on how this shows the browser market is strong.
This is all great to see. Not only is this just the beginning for Google Chrome, Chromium, and V8 (I am dying for a Mac version!), but the other browsers are keeping pace too. The end result is a better Web for users, and a higher quality of product for developers to build against!
Source: Ajaxian » Front Page
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