Comments on: Safari 4 Final Released

By: que

que — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:27:30 +0000

Peacekeeper is just another artificial JS speed test. Safari does not wind hands down. In fact, Chrome is faster at these artificial JS tests than Safari.

But the point is that Peacekeeper, SunSpider, etc. don’t say anything what so ever about real world performance. They only say something about how optimized the JS engine is for what those tests cover, namely a tiny and artificial part of JS, which makes up only a tiny part of the time it takes to render a page.

By: nobody

nobody — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:43:25 +0000

given the scope of peacekeper test it is optimised for 100% of functions. in any JS speed test safari wins it hands down.

By: que

que — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:36:38 +0000

It isn’t “fast”. It’s optimized for certain JS functions. Peacekeeper is just yet another artificial and irrelevant JS benchmark.

By: Gabriela

Gabriela — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:38:46 +0000

I tried the beta version.
It wasn’t at all fast and I couldn’t find any help either online or within the browser for the new features considering I coudn’t make the Top Sites nor the Cover Flow work.
So I unistalled as soon as I had installed it!

By: mr.r

mr.r — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:08:25 +0000

It is fast (according to Peacekeeper benchmark it’s the fastest browser on most platforms), but it surely isn’t innovative.

It is polished however, but very poor on functionality (same as Chrome). Especially compared to Opera.