Opera is back in the race!
It seems Opera Software can't do nothing wrong, Opera 10 is stable and well on it's way to bring some long wanted features to everyone. And now they've announced their own new JavaScript engine. Not only will it race for the best performance, but also for the most funky name for technology.
Through the Opera Core team blog we learn that Carakan is the name of the new JavaScript engine, which will replace Futhark. Instead of focusing on minimizing code footprint and memory usage, it will now focus on speed, as the market expects.
Carakan will focus on three key areas to improve speed beyond Futhark and other previous efforts: register-based bytecode, native code generation, and automatic object classification. So how fast is Carakan? According to Opera Software Carakan is currently about 2.5x faster with the SunSpider benchmark than the engine in Opera 10 Alpha.
Currently Carakan is not yet ready for outside testing and no specific answer is given whether it will be part of Opera 10. But I think the most important thing is that Opera Software has openly communicated towards its community that it is indeed working on a very fast JavaScript engine that should be able to compete with the likes of Chrome's V8, Firefox' TraceMonkey and Safari's SquirrelFish Extreme.
Really Olly wrote in comments that this new engine will not be included in Opera 10 ;)
http://my.opera.com/core/blog/show.dml/2956477#comment6921567
Thans for the info, didn't see that :) Too bad it won't be in Opera 10, even though it's still in alpha stage. But nonetheless good to know they're working on it.
At least Google hints at it, and I definitely agree! Speed is very important to me, which is why I use Opera, then Chrome, then Firefox, and if I really, really have to I'll perhaps boot up the good ol' IE.
"can't do nothing wrong" ? did you not mean "can do nothing wrong" ?
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