Safari 5 vs Chrome 5 (Mac)

Here are the results of my initial speed test for Safari 5 vs Chrome 5.

There is nothing revolutionary here. Chrome is clearly faster on my macbook pro (i7, ssd hd). The only area where Safari 5 outperformed was in DOM manipulation…which is interesting. This should make it handle some in-application processing faster. Unfortunately, it may not be noticeable because Chrome will do the initial layout and the data processing much faster.