[bterlson]

Agreed, Octane was good as far as benchmarks go but you have to balance with a much larger set of benchmarks and always ground your work in real-world scenarios (something we focused heavily on from day one e.g. when we realized having an interpreter really helps startup on lots of real-world apps but doesn't do much for Octane score).

That said, FWIW I think Edge/Chakra gets the crown on Windows!

(I work on Chakra)

[vanderZwan]

Out of curiosity: does only having to target one OS make a difference here? Is it "easier" to get it to run fast? Any worries that you don't have compared to Firefox and Chrome, even though you purely work on the JS side of things?

[bterlson]

I'm sorry I missed your comment earlier, but hopefully replying later is better than never :)

ChakraCore is cross-platform now so we no longer get the benefit of a single platform. However back when we were only Windows there were advantages, certainly, if only because all the work spent getting everything working on different OSes can instead be invested in improving performance.