Chrome Beta Boosts Performance by 30 Percent
A new beta version of the Chrome browser offers an additional 30 percent performance enhancement over previous versions, Google said Wednesday. The new version of Chrome is only available to those who subscribe to the beta channel; stable releases are pushed out to Chrome users automatically, but at a later time.
According to Google, the new beta is 30 percent faster in both the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks, the company said in a blog post. In general, that means that the new beta will be substantially faster in executing JavaScript.
However, Google has made other improvements as well. "For example, when you open a new web page while other web pages are still loading, Google Chrome is now smarter about prioritizing the requests for the new page -- for instance, fetching text, images, and video for your new page -- ahead of the requests from the older pages," Glen Murphy Loading pages on this beta release should also be faster than ever with DNS caching, more efficient DOM bindings, and using V8 for proxy auto-config."
