Google has announced the launch of a new Javascript benchmarking suite called Octane this week, which has been created to measure Javascript performance.
Google has designed Octane to measure the real-world performance of Javascript to replace the currently available benchmarking software suites, as they run artificial tests, and were created on an ad-hoc basis.
The new Google Octane benchmarking suite contains five new benchmarks created from full, unaltered and well-known web libraries and apps. Here is an overview of the new tests from the official Google Chromium Blog post
– Box2DWeb runs a JavaScript port of a popular 2D physics engine that is behind many well-known simulations and web games.
– Mandreel puts a JavaScript port of the 3D Bullet Engine to the test with a twist: The original C++ source code for the engine is translated to JavaScript by Onan Games’ Mandreelcompiler, which is also used in countless web-based games.
– Pdf.js is based on and shows how Javascript applications can replace complex native browser plug-ins. It measures how fast the browser decodes a sample PDF document.
– GB Emulator is derived from an open source emulator of a famous game console running a 3D demo.
– CodeLoad measures how quickly a JavaScript engine can bootstrap commonly used JavaScript libraries and start executing code in them. The source for this test is derived from open source libraries (Closure, jQuery).
More information about the new new Google Octane benchmarking suite is available over on the Chromium Blog
Source: Google
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