Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT
Designed to bring aggressive C-like optimizations to the largest variety of JavaScript programs.
Overview of WebKit’s CSS JIT Compiler
Making CSS faster and more scalable is an area of research in the WebKit project.
Binary Size Matters
Unusual Speed Boost:
Binary Size Matters
One of my concerns last year was that while WebKit was getting faster on common benchmarks, some operations were getting slower as a byproduct of new features and optimizations.
Announcing SunSpider 1.0
The popular SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite was originally released by the WebKit team over five years ago, in December 2007.
On spinlocks and sleep()
Yes, we really did achieve a 3.7X speedup on a garbage collection benchmark by removing a call to sleep().
Announcing SunSpider 0.9.1
Today we’d like to announce SunSpider 0.9.1, a new version of the popular SunSpider JavaScript benchmark that improves accuracy of results.
Optimizing Page Loading in the Web Browser
It is well understood that page loading speed in a web browser is limited by the available connection bandwidth.
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CSS3 has introduced a property called background-clip that can be used to clip backgrounds to either the border, padding or content box.
Announcing SunSpider 0.9
A New JavaScript Benchmark From the WebKit Team Here in WebKit-land, we strive for great performance and we love to make things faster.
Background Music
macenstein.com has an interesting article about a slowdown in other applications when a Safari window with a specific set of pages is loaded in the background.