Thread: Opera`s New Engine: Carakan

Carakan is Opera's new JavaScript engine. It's still in development, but is already 2.5 times faster than Opera 10 alpha engine (which itself is 30% faster on real websites than previous versions of Opera). Some aspects are between 5 and 50 times faster!

Opera has always been about speed, security and a small memory footprint, so they're constantly improving these aspects of the browser. Many of today's web applications depend heavily on JavaScript, and they're developing what will be the fastest ECMAscript engine on the market.

Using a regular cross-platform switch dispatch mechanism (without any generated native code) Carakan is currently about two and a half times faster at the SunSpider benchmark than the ECMAScript engine in Presto 2.2 (Opera 10 Alpha). Since Opera is ported to many different hardware architectures, this cross-platform improvement is on its own very important.

The native code generation in Carakan is not yet ready for full-scale testing, but the few individual benchmark tests that it is already compatible with runs between 5 and 50 times faster, so it is looking promising so far.

Good one ...............

The image I have used in showing Opera is a theme in Opera. I have also installed it, looks cool.....