TraceMonkey Articles
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Firefox 4 Performance
Dave Mandelin from the JS team and Joe Drew from the Graphics team summarize the key performance improvements in Firefox 4. The web wants fast browsers. Cutting-edge HTML5 web pages play games, mash up and share maps, sound, and videos, show spreadsheets and presentations, and edit photos. Only a high-performance browser can do that. What […]
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ECMAScript 5 strict mode in Firefox 4
Editor’s note: This article is posted by Chris Heilmann but authored by Jeff Walden – credit where credit is due. Developers in the Mozilla community have made major improvements to the JavaScript engine in Firefox 4. We have devoted much effort to improving performance, but we’ve also worked on new features. We have particularly focused […]
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Fun With Fast JavaScript
This post is by Vladimir Vukićević and is a re-post from his personal weblog. Fast JavaScript is a cornerstone of the modern web. In the past, application authors had to wait for browser developers to implement any complex functionality in the browser itself, so that they could access it from script code. Today, many of […]
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improving JavaScript performance with JägerMonkey
In August 2008, Mozilla introduced TraceMonkey. The new engine, which we shipped in Firefox 3.5, heralded a new era of performance to build the next generation of web browsers and web applications. Just after the introduction of our new engine Google introduced V8 with Chrome. Apple also introduced their own engine to use in Safari, […]
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JavaScript speedups in Firefox 3.6
This post was written by David Mandelin who works on Mozilla’s JavaScript team. Firefox 3.5 introduced TraceMonkey, our new JavaScript engine that traces loops and JIT compiles them to native (x86/ARM) code. Many JavaScript programs ran 3-4x faster in TraceMonkey compared to Firefox 3. (See our previous article for technical details.) For JavaScript performance in […]
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Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 – web developer changes
As covered on the Mozilla Developer Center, Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 is now available for download. And we’ve been busy since Firefox 3.5. Web developers will be interested in a number of features that are new in Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1: The TraceMonkey JavaScript engine has continued to get faster. We’ve made a huge number […]
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an overview of TraceMonkey
This post was written by David Mandelin who works on Mozilla’s JavaScript team. Firefox 3.5 has a new JavaScript engine, TraceMonkey, that runs many JavaScript programs 3-4x faster than Firefox 3, speeding up existing web apps and enabling new ones. This article gives a peek under the hood at the major parts of TraceMonkey and […]
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connecting html5 video to the web
This is a screencast of a demo that I gave at the open video conference in NYC on June 19th, 2009. The demo itself was created by the ever wonderful Paul Rouget. Download .ogv or .mp4 version. A version hosted on blip.tv.
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what does tracemonkey feel like?
One of our goals with Firefox 3.5 is to help upgrade the web. Over the lifecycle of this release we’ve invested heavily in developer features. One of the features that we’ve invested in is TraceMonkey – a tracing interpreter that turns commonly-run JavaScript code into machine code so that it can run at near-native speeds. […]
