Mozilla has revved up its SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine with a new just-in-time (JIT) compiler. The TraceMonkey project boosts JavaScript performance by an order of magnitude.
TraceMonkey is slated for release in Firefox 3.1 and is expected to also boost Canvas development.
- The folks at Mozilla have souped up JavaScript with a new just-in-time (JIT) compilation scheme in a project known as TraceMonkey, which boosts JavaScript performance as much as 22.5 times depending on which benchmarks and tests you use.Brendan Eich, chief technology officer at Mozilla called the ... .
