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The addition of some rather nice Pythonic sugar in JavaScript 1.7 and 1.8 is a great start, and the recent emergence of consensus in the standards community on the future of ECMAScript lifts some ...
The Firefox Nightly beta makes these calls run faster than non-in-lined JavaScript-to-JavaScript function calls. Calls have been optimized from JavaScript to WebAssembly and vice versa.
Mozilla has released Firefox 18 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux. New features include faster JavaScript compiling via IonMonkey and Retina Display support.
Still, Firefox and Mozilla are a force to be reckoned with, and no one ever complains about faster JavaScript performance -- so here's hoping that OdinMonkey makes a splash, and that dynamic ...
Speed tests comparing it to the current Firefox 15 show IonMonkey improves JavaScript performance by 26 percent on Mozilla's Kraken benchmark and 20 percent on Google's V8 benchmark (which, by the ...
Firefox will soon be getting faster thanks to Mozilla's IonMonkey, a new JavaScript just-in-time compiler. IonMonkey is set to arrive early next year, but you can try it today in the Firefox ...
The current word: this is a hoax. The original story Firefox is loaded with security flaws, according to a hacker duo that presented at this year's ToorCon.
TraceMonkey was placed in the Firefox 3.1 development tree this week. It is slated to be featured in Firefox 3.1, which is due to be available the end of this year.
The next version, Firefox 5, is due June 21, according to release manager Christian Legnitto. But don't expect the JavaScript and graphics changes to arrive that soon.
In the case of Firefox 9, the type inference engine seems to produce up to 30% faster JavaScript execution. It varies from benchmark to benchmark, but the performance improvement is unmistakable.
Mozilla on Wednesday patched a single critical security vulnerability in the JavaScript engine of Firefox, updating the open-source browser to Version 2.0.0.14. According to the associated ...
With JägerMonkey, the new Firefox builds feel significantly faster, especially on JavaScript-heavy applications like Gmail and Facebook, Mandelin reported. Not only that, but the new builds are ...