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by Nicolay77 6702 days ago
Opera has been doing that for ages.

AFAIK Opera 9.5 Beta is still faster than these two browsers.
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tlrobinson 6701 days ago
Where did you come up with that assumption? A quick (very unscientific) test of a big web application (over 100 JavaScript and image files) shows you're wrong...

(first column is seconds with empty cache, second column is seconds after cache was filled)

    WebKit     - 15 / 9
    Firefox 3  - 18 / 12
    Safari 3   - 19 / 12
    Opera 9.24 - 20 / 15
    Opera 9.5b - 20 / 19
    Firefox 2  - 21 / 21
Again, these are very rough numbers (I took the best out of about 3 runs) on a pretty slow machine (1.33GHz G4). Perhaps the numbers would be different for simple static pages, but I don't have a good way to time that.
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Nicolay77 6701 days ago
I got my data from here: http://celtickane.com/webdesign/jsspeed2007.php

Of course, the scientific method means this tests should be reproducible by everyone, and YMMV, but I wasn't talking bullshit, just see the page.

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