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Dojo vs JQuery vs MooTools vs Prototype Performance Comparison

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

As part of my Mootools lecture at Codecamp I showed a brief speed comparison between the most used Javascript Frameworks running in the major browsers. Now as the Mootools team has extended their performance test tool (slickspeed) it is time to revise my benchmarks and extend them over more browser/platforms.

Test results (Lower is better):

Speed Comparsion Graph

*For example FF (XP-NA) is Firefox 2.0.0.12 with no addons (extensions) enabled running under Windows XP

You can check the actual numbers (in ms) and the full browsers information in the table bellow:

  Dojo 1.0.2 JQuery 1.2.3 MooTools 1.2beta2 Prototype 1.6.0.2
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 - no addons - winxp 128 266 115 259
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 - winxp 144 290 127 260
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 - linux 253 438 255 384
Opera 9.26 - winxp 32 136 148 194
Opera 9.26 - linux 110 188 238 364
Internet Explorer 7 - no addons - winxp 263 330 662 1563
Internet Explorer 7 - winxp 264 334 674 1583
Internet Explorer 6 387 600 945 2279
Internet Explorer 6 - linux (wine) 692 978 1310 2616
Safari 3.0.4 Beta 3 - winxp 36 76 84 116
Konqueror - linux 324 450 X X

Conclusions:

  • Safari under Windows XP is really blazing fast
  • Mootools and Prototype JS do not work under Konqueror (KDE’s default browser)
  • Dojo performs great. If we take only these test into consideration it safe to say it is the fastest Javascript Framework
  • Linux browsers are relatively slower against their Windows versions
  • Prototype is insanly slow under Internet Explorer

Disclaimer: This benchmark is somehow subjective because the test results depend on the current OS load and other factors. If you have any corrections or comments on this topic I will gladly review them and will revise the results if needed.

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