March 2010
Static call versus Singleton call in PHP « Hardcoded
One of the first benchmarks of Hiphop PHP. Where it is said to be 200x times faster than PHP as an Apache module for massive Singleton or Static calls.
February 2009
Carakan
The announcement of Carakan, Opera's new ECMAScript Engine, using register-based bytecode instruction set. The first benchmarks show that Carakan is about two and a half times faster at the SunSpider benchmark than the ECMAScript engine in Presto 2.2 from Opera 10 Alpha.
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