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Were all of these tests done on a Windows8 machine? I only ask because the latest version of Safari isnt available for Windows (you may be able to install WebKit nightly as a Windows user though).

Id like to see how nightly build of browsers stack up as well.

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That's right, these were all done on a Windows 8 machine. We could of course test on Safari 6 on a Mac, but then the numbers wouldn't be directly comparable (since it's different hardware).

I think your article would benefit from making this piont clearer. There's been discussions on HN before about how performance of Apple software on Windows differs greatly compared with performance of Apple software on Apple OSes.

The same version of Chrome across both platforms can be a control proxy.

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