"remember that Chrome/v8 is the one that forced all the others in really caring about js speed in the first place"
That's not accurate. I recommend you go back and look at the actual order of events here.
Apple started the JS perf battle with SquirrelFish Extreme and Firefox answered with TraceMonkey, all before Chrome was even announced.
I am not discounting the impact that V8 has had on the industry, but it is simply wrong to claim that Google kicked this thing off when Apple and Mozilla were both there publicly squaring off in JS benchmarks well before you, and just about every one else on the planet, even knew Chrome was a thing.
This does not changed the fact that chrome crushed the competition just like gmail crushed others. It took a very long time others to keep up and they are still behind in most cases. IMHO v8 deserves all the credit for the advance of JavaScript performance race.
That's not accurate. I recommend you go back and look at the actual order of events here.
Apple started the JS perf battle with SquirrelFish Extreme and Firefox answered with TraceMonkey, all before Chrome was even announced.
I am not discounting the impact that V8 has had on the industry, but it is simply wrong to claim that Google kicked this thing off when Apple and Mozilla were both there publicly squaring off in JS benchmarks well before you, and just about every one else on the planet, even knew Chrome was a thing.