SlickSpeed mirror with the latest versions of MooTools, jQuery, Prototype, and Dojo.
Posted by: atom, 2008 06.14
I absolutely love the brilliant Valerio’s SlickSpeed, which is a speed/validity selectors test for Javascript frameworks.
It’s not so up to date at the moment, so I thought I would put one up on trickeries! with the latest and greatest from MooTools, jQuery, Prototype, and Dojo.
Everyone knows where my heart lies, however all of these libraries have grown by leaps and bounds. The teams behind these frameworks are truly amazing, and I tip my imaginary hat to each.
June 26th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Wow - not only is Slickspeed a great test of the frameworks, it’s also a great test of browser javascript performance.
For me, on Firefox 3, Dojo is under 100ms for the entire test and is clearly the fastest. In IE (both 6 and 7), JQuery kicks butt.
I’m a Mootools fan myself but this test was an excellent eye-opener.
June 26th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Oh yeah, my main point was that FF3 performance was a minimum of 3 times faster for all frameworks - amazing.
June 26th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
MooTools is running slowest because it no longer provides xpath support. The fact that it even manages to keep up is pretty amazing.
The reason xpath support was removed is because not all browsers support it, and the decision was made to keep it as neat and clean as possible.
You think FF3 is fast, you should check it out in th latest Safari, SquirrelFish whomps ass.
June 27th, 2008 at 8:07 am
You’re right, Safari was pretty good. The hands-down winner was Dojo on Opera 9.5 though. Dojo took only 32 ms to run the complete suite! That’s cooking with gas.