The popular SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite was originally released by the WebKit team over five years ago, in December 2007. It was engineered to be a balance of real JavaScript code from the web, and to serve as a blueprint for the sorts of language-level operations that the WebKit JavaScript engine should, but was as yet unable to, optimize. And optimize we did: intriguingly, the original
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