[mahouse]

> Their Javascript engine is among the fastest in the world.

And still easily the slowest.

[epmatsw]

Oh really?

http://arewefastyet.com/

[mahouse]

Yes, really. Benchmarks are fabricated and hardly represent real use cases, such as modifying the DOM.

[fabrice_d]

DOM modification performance has next to nothing to do with the performance of the JS engine.