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Especially Sunspider, which has the doubly whammy of developer and to a certain extent power-user mindshare, but yet doesn’t test normal site behaviour.


Sunspider is a particularly bad benchmark: Virtually all of the components are heavily weighted by string concatenation.

http://www.yafla.com/dforbes/String_Concatenation_and_Immuta...




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