> EDIT: And I guess the answer for "why not fix SunSpider specifically?" is that once you've done the work to turn it into something worth optimizing, it no longer bears any resemblance to the original. It probably looks a lot more like Speedometer, honestly.
I get that, yeah, but superseding the old name is probably worth it though; the internet is full of people who never get the memo except via version numbers :)
I tongue-in-cheek proposed that we match the Sunspider ASTs in V8 and either make it infinitely fast or infinitely slow. Now that will kill a benchmark once and for all!
I get that, yeah, but superseding the old name is probably worth it though; the internet is full of people who never get the memo except via version numbers :)
I tongue-in-cheek proposed that we match the Sunspider ASTs in V8 and either make it infinitely fast or infinitely slow. Now that will kill a benchmark once and for all!