Jeff: If you’re taking requests, I’d be curious to see how the latest WebKit nightly build (http://nightly.webkit.org/) stacks up against the other browsers on Windows.
Hoffmann: This benchmark focusses on one part of the functionality of the web browser. There are other benchmarks that cover DOM access, page loading and rendering. A benchmark that covers every piece of functionality in a web browser provides information that is incredibly complex to analyse and thus very difficult to use in a practical fashion to optimise the browser.
Freiheit: Setting a variable and setting a property of a DOM object appear syntactically similar but are vastly different in terms of implementation. Setting a property on a DOM object typically results in the rendering engine being required to update the layout, repaint a portion of the screen, etc. The performance of these operations is obviously of great interest to developers, both of web applications and browsers, but are not the focus of SunSpider. There are other benchmarks that cover these areas.