Traditional JavaScript benchmarks

&quot;It is probably fair to say that JavaScript is the most important technology these days when it comes to software engineering.&quot;<p>Uhh ... no?

Is there a benchmark which tests boring real world usage? The web is littered with people complaining about the performance of dynamically adding rows to tables, especially in IE.<p>The good news is that the next version of Edge 15 has some really good DOM performance improvements.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;microsoft-edge&#x2F;platform&#x2F;issues&#x2F;10152783&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;microsoft-edge&#x2F;platfor...</a>

I apologize if this is an uninformed question, but are there any popular <i>browser</i> benchmarks out there? I&#x27;m sure that JS benchmarks are useful to browser developers and those who want JS to be the next general application platform, but as a user, I&#x27;m currently sticking to Safari since things like battery life and scrolling performance on mainly document-oriented pages are still more important to me.

Some very good examples and a good explanation of the reasoning behind the previous and the current optimizations of the JavaScript execution infrastructure.<p>For the context, from the &quot;about&quot; page of the author, he:<p>&quot;joined Google to work on the V8 JavaScript Engine in the Munich office, where&quot; he&#x27;s &quot;currently working as tech lead for the JavaScript execution optimization team.&quot;

The part about optimizing for the Mandreel-test by skipping some initialization has gone full circle, as this is now exploited by developers. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nolanlawson&#x2F;optimize-js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nolanlawson&#x2F;optimize-js</a>

All of these changes that the author is making are changes that the compiler should be generating.<p>Unless you work in the embeded systems I don&#x27;t expect people to have done or needed the % 2048 trick.