By Gregg Keizer, ComputerWorld
Google yesterday released the first beta of Chrome 10, touting the new version’s faster JavaScript engine. According to tests run by Computerworld, Chrome 10 is 64% faster than its predecessor on Google’s own V8 JavaScript benchmarks. Google shipped the stable version of Chrome 9 earlier this month. Google maintains three separate “channels” of Chrome — stable, beta and dev — that denote increasingly rougher-edged editions. But in another JavaScript benchmark — WebKit’s widely-cited SunSpider — Chrome 10 beta was no faster than Chrome 9. WebKit is the open-source project that develops the browser engine by the same name; both Chrome and Apple’s Safari rely on the WebKit engine.
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