What does Chrome do to speed up page display?

Question

I heard Google claim that Chrome uses certain methods faster than other browsers; in particular, I heard that this has something to do with Javascript handling differently. Can someone explain what methods Chrome uses to speed up page rendering?

Answer 1

Direct from source:

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/12/technically-speaking-what-makes-google.html (part I)
http://blog.chromium.org/2010/04/technically-speaking-what-makes -google.html (part II)