I got bored the other day and ran the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark in Safari on my iPhone 3G running the 2.0.1 OS release, with no other tabs open. Here are the results.
But the punch line is that Safari 3.1 running on my MacBook Pro is 45 times faster at JavaScript than Safari 3.1.1 running on the iPhone.
(Safari on the iPhone is still really impressive, of course.)
Since I just struggled with this for a couple of hours, I figured I’d post it here for posterity.
If you want to generate the string representation of some XML in JavaScript, here’s how to do it (using the Prototype 1.6 syntax for element creation), courtesy of Captain’s Universe:
var contactsElement = new Element("contacts"); var evanElement = new Element("contact"); Element.insert(evanElement, new Element("name").update("Evan DiBiase")); Element.insert(evanElement, new Element("blog", {'type': 'personal'}).update("http://evand.org")); Element.insert(evanElement, new Element("email", {'type': 'school'}).update('esd@cmu.edu')) Element.insert(contactsElement, evanElement); var zachElement = new Element("contact"); Element.insert(zachElement, new Element("name").update("Zach Paine")); Element.insert(zachElement, new Element("blog", {'type': 'personal'}).update("http://zachpaine.info")); Element.insert(contactsElement, zachElement); alert(new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(contactsElement));
I don’t know if this works with IE yet; I’ll update this post when I find out.
