26
Aug
TraceMonkey
From John Resig’s blog:
A fantastic new improvement to Mozilla’s JavaScript engine (SpiderMonkey) has landed. Code-named TraceMonkey this engine utilizes a techniques, called trace trees, which adds just-in-time native code compilation to SpiderMonkey. — John Resig
This is exciting news, and combined with Safari’s upcoming SquirrelFish javascript interpreter it means JavaScript-heavy web pages and applications are going to be getting a big performance boost in the near-future.