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Wayne Pan

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Wayne Pan's personal blog at waynepan.com covers web and programming. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “V8 vs TraceMonkey vs SquirrelFish vs IE8 BenchMarks”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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11mentions?
3HN people?
2008–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its browser comparisons, including 2008 benchmarks of JavaScript engines such as V8, TraceMonkey and SquirrelFish. The posts cover browser performance and standards.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. V8 vs TraceMonkey vs SquirrelFish vs IE8 BenchMarks
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-09-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. if you are going to dispute them dispute them with numbers, virtually every benchmark, independent or otherwise puts ie somewhere between bad and embarrassing http://waynepan.com/2008/09/02/v8-tracemonkey-squirrelfish-i... If you point is that we should just be happy with the web that ie6 supports then sure we wouldnt need to put up with fairly minor differences between firefox / chrome. Personally I think we are st…

    Comment linking /2008/09/02/v8-tracemonkey-squirrelfish-ie8-benchmarks/

    on “Is IE9 a modern browser?”
  2. Submitted IPhone Web App Performance Tip - Use Inline Images as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  3. Since John's site is down temporarily I'll link my tests here http://waynepan.com/2008/09/02/v8-tracemonkey-squirrelfish-i... PS. I didn't know the secret v2 Dromaeo tests... running and updating now.

    Comment linking /2008/09/02/v8-tracemonkey-squirrelfish-ie8-benchmarks/

    on “Resig: Javascript Performance Rundown”
  4. Submitted IPhone 3.0 now with SquirrelFish Extreme? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Dissecting Safari 4’s Welcome Screen as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted IPhone/iOS 4/Froyo Browsers and Concurrent Connections as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Bypassing Sprint Activation on a Palm Pre as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted I Think I Broke Google as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Possible, Beautiful, Fast as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted How good is your idea? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted V8 vs TraceMonkey vs SquirrelFish vs IE8 BenchMarks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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