Tag: TRACEMONKEY

After we reported that Mozilla is working on a new, faster scripting engine -- JägerMonkey -- it has now come to light that Apple's WebKit project and its JavaScript native code generator JSCore will be the 'secret sauce' that speeds things up. Firefox already has strong code optimization in its current JavaScript engine (TraceMonkey), but in terms of actual code generation Adobe's nanojit ...

Ever since Google dropped Chrome and the V8 Javascript engine on the performance-hungry masses, developers of other browsers have been working hard at leveling the playing field. Opera 10.50's Carakan engine is blazingly fast and many users report it outperforming V8 on benchmarks. Firefox users who recently upgraded to 3.6 have seen a nice jump in performance as well, though TraceMonkey still ...