AS3 vs. JavaScript Performance Followup (June 2010)
Version 5.0 of Safari was released on just a couple weeks ago on June 8 and Google Chrome was updated just a week before that. More importantly, to this site anyways, is the release of Flash Player 10.1 on June 10. Today’s article shows an updated performance comparison to check up on the progress being made in both JavaScript (Safari, Chrome) and AS3 (Flash Player).
Let’s look at the performance charts:
All Versions
Current Versions
Amazingly, Google Chrome 5.0 is now 2.27x faster than Google Chrome 4.0. Apple Safari 5.0 too makes a big jump and comes in 1.7x faster than its predecessor. So how about AS3 performance in Flash Player 10.1? I’m happy to report that Flash Player 10.1 shows a 1.66x performance increase compared to Flash Player 10.0. While the smallest increase of the three, this is a very welcome speed boost to many AS3 programmers, especially the readers of this site! Here are the new rankings for the current browsers and Flash Player:
- Safari 5.0 (fastest)
- Firefox 3.6
- Opera 10.5
- Flash Player 10.1
- Chrome 4.5
- Internet Explorer 8.0 (slowest)
I’ll be covering much more about the speedups in Flash Player 10.1 over the coming weeks and months. Until then, enjoy the raw data as Open Document Format (ODS) or Excel (XLS) format spreadsheet.
Previous AS3 vs. JavaScript Performance tests: March 2010, December 2009, August 2009
#1 by Mike Cann on June 28th, 2010 ·
Nice! Tho it would be interesting to know if the ActiveX version of the flash player performs any different to the Netscape one.. I have a hunch..
#2 by jackson on June 28th, 2010 ·
Next time I do a followup article on this subject I’ll be sure to test this and report it.
#3 by Og2t on June 28th, 2010 ·
What was the test case Jackson?
#4 by jackson on June 28th, 2010 ·
I’ve updated the article with links to the previous test articles at the bottom. The first article describes the test suite I’m using and it’s remained the same across all versions of this series of articles so far.
#5 by Kevin Newman on July 7th, 2010 ·
Your raw data files don’t list Flash 10.1 – is that old data?
#6 by jackson on July 11th, 2010 ·
Sorry, the links were pointing to the old data. I’ve updated them now and you should be able to get at the spreadsheets. Thanks for pointing this out!
#7 by felix on July 7th, 2010 ·
Can you give a description of what kind of tests you are running? I’m not seeing it in your previous posts. Thanks!
#8 by jackson on July 11th, 2010 ·
The original article talks about the test suite I’m using. It’s the one from oddhammer.com. I’ve used that same suite each time to keep things consistent.
#9 by Jon on July 21st, 2010 ·
It’d be cool to see the data for the latest beta/preview versions of each browser, e.g. IE9 Preview 3, Firefox 4b1 and Chrome 6 dev channel.