Firefox massive JavaScript performance boost
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Loading ...Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by default in the nightly builds) and is planned for inclusion in Firefox 3.1, the next incremental update of the open-source web browser.
They are “getting ready to take JavaScript performance into the next tier” with a radically innovative optimization tactic called tracing that has already produced performance improvements ranging between 20 and 40 times faster in some cases. They believe that this is just the beginning of what can be accomplished with tracing, and they expect to be able to achieve even better speed as the work continues.
Bringing more power to client-side scripting will move the web forward and create new opportunities for web developers. Eich says that Mozilla wants to “get people thinking about JavaScript as a more general-purpose language” and show them that “it really is a platform for writing full applications.”
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Noel :: Aug.23.2008 :: Web Development :: No Comments »
