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     31 <title>SunSpider 0.9.1 JavaScript Benchmark</title>
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     37 <h2><span id="logo">&#x2600;</span>SunSpider 0.9.1 JavaScript Benchmark</h2>
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     39 <p>This is SunSpider, a JavaScript benchmark. This benchmark tests the
     40 core JavaScript language only, not the DOM or other browser APIs. It
     41 is designed to compare different versions of the same browser, and
     42 different browsers to each other. Unlike many widely available
     43 JavaScript benchmarks, this test is:</p>
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     46 <dt>Real World<dt>
     47 <dd>This test mostly avoids microbenchmarks, and tries to focus on
     48 the kinds of actual problems developers solve with JavaScript today,
     49 and the problems they may want to tackle in the future as the language
     50 gets faster. This includes tests to generate a tagcloud from JSON
     51 input, a 3D raytracer, cryptography tests, code decompression, and
     52 many more examples. There are a few microbenchmarkish things, but they
     53 mostly represent real performance problems that developers have
     54 encountered.</dd>
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     56 <dt>Balanced<dt>
     57 <dd>This test is balanced between different areas of the language and
     58 different types of code. It's not all math, all string processing, or
     59 all timing simple loops. In addition to having tests in many
     60 categories, the individual tests were balanced to take similar amounts
     61 of time on currently shipping versions of popular browsers.</dd>
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     63 <dt>Statistically Sound<dt>
     64 <dd>One of the challenges of benchmarking is knowing how much noise
     65 you have in your measurements. This benchmark runs each test multiple
     66 times and determines an error range (technically, a 95% confidence
     67 interval). In addition, in comparison mode it tells you if you have
     68 enough data to determine if the difference is statistically
     69 significant.</dd>
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     73 <p><b>Current version - sunspider-0.9.1:</b> <a href="sunspider-0.9.1/driver.html">Start Now!</a><br>
     74 <small>(When you run the benchmark, be patient - it loops through all of the
     75 test cases five times and can take a minute or longer to complete.)</small></p>
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     77 <a href="versions.html">All versions.</a>
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