First Safari performance reports

Ted Choward over at tedchoward.com has put the Safari 3 beta through some tests with his online application, Thinwire.
He had it generate a grid with 1000 rows and could still use the browser while it was calculating the result.

Here are the numbers he came up with:

• Internet Explorer 7: 1 minute 33.66 seconds
• Opera 9: 27.93 seconds
• Firefox 2: 23.24 seconds
• Safari 3 Beta: 18.91 seconds

To visualize this, let me add a graph:

Although the performance is probably no reason to switch from Firefox, it shows that we have another real alternative to Internet Explorer on our hands.