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Video of ChromeOS Early Build

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: October 15, 2009
Just a quick video made of the ChromeOS build found on the chromium.org server. It’s run on Ubuntu in a virtual machine running on Snow Leopard. Used Quicktime X to record it, which turned out pretty well I think! Not much in there yet, but good to see that parts of it are on the way!
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Benchmarking Chrome’s V8 Javascript engine

By Richard Bradshaw | Published: September 5, 2008
Having previously looked at the memory usage of Google’s Chrome, it’s time to analyse it’s much mentioned javascript engine, V8. Assumedly named after the engine with the same name, V8 compiles javascript to machine code, rather than bytecode to achieve greater performance. In this respect, it’s similar to Firefox 3.1’s TraceMonkey, a JIT javascript compiler again [...]
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