Mozilla has revved up its SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine with a new just-in-time compiler. The TraceMonkey project boosts JavaScript performance by an order of magnitude. TraceMonkey is slated for ...

Firefox users can expect improved JavaScript performance in the Firefox 83 browser, with the Warp update to the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine enabled by default.

Mozilla has just released Firefox 83. It comes with lots of changes including better performance from the SpiderMonkey engine and emulated support for Apple's M1 chip with native support due.

Mozilla is using tracing optimization techniques and Adobe's open source nanojit to increase the execution speed of SpiderMonkey, the JavaScript runtime engine in the Firefox web browser.

Mozilla employe and JavaScript creator Brendan Eich is giving a surprise talk at Node.js today on the subject of using Mozilla’s Spidermonkey JavaScript engine in Node.js, instead of Google’s V8.

Eligible browser JavaScript engines include JavaScriptCore (Safari), V8 (Chrome, Edge), and Spidermonkey (Firefox), but security researchers can pitch other engines in their submitted proposals.