This page does not show Chrome being 59 being slower. Rather, it shows a contrived bench running 38% slower. Interestingly, it also shows their site running 32% faster.
Given the V8 team has explicitly stated the plan to optimize for real websites rather than synthetic benchmarks [1] these results look completely appropriate and desirable. Good work V8 team!
Given the V8 team has explicitly stated the plan to optimize for real websites rather than synthetic benchmarks [1] these results look completely appropriate and desirable. Good work V8 team!
https://blog.chromium.org/2017/04/real-world-javascript-perf...