Benchmarking Mercury As The "Fastest Firefox Fork" With AVX, AES, LTO + PGO
Following the news last week of Firefox outperforming Chrome in SunSpider, a Phoronix reader pointed out Mercury that is an open-source web browser claiming to be the 'fastest Firefox fork' and making use of Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) and AES instructions along with compiler features like Link-Time Optimizations (LTO) and Profile-Guided Optimizations (PGO).
Source: phoronix.com