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tlrobinson on Nov 25, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sony's next-gen application platform built on Obje...

Why? The performance differences between V8 and JSC/SFX are marginal at this point.

junkbit on Nov 25, 2010 [–]

To be fair, V8 kicked of an arms race that has benefited the whole industry.

jonhohle on Nov 25, 2010 | [–]

How so? Squirrelfish was released (at least in source form) in June 2008, V8 wasn't announced until September of that same year. Apple, Mozilla, and Opera were duking it out in public for months before V8 was on the scene.

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