[bozonil]

First sunspider, now octane.

This shows that browser vendors are not really good at writing JS benchmarks representative of real world, which is not surprising considering that they are not doing real web development.

Ideally benchmarks would come from developers of popular websites like Facebook, Twitter, etc.

[ajross]

That's just a truism about benchmarks. Once all the low hanging fruit is picked they stop showing interesting progress and just become a garden for crazy microoptimizations. The same thing happened with C compilers 10-15 years ago.

Basically, Javascript performance is "done". It's not going to get much faster at this point, and higher performance will come from paradigm shifts (SIMD, WebAssembly, pick your fad).