JavaScript speed boost ahead for Mozilla's Firefox

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 27, 2008 1:51 AM EDT
iTWire; By Stephen Withers
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Web applications are set for a speed boost, but it's nothing to do with their developers. The TraceMonkey project is hard at work on a new and much faster implementation of JavaScript for the Firefox browser. While TraceMonkey is still in its early stages, the target is to make it a part of Firefox 3.1, which is expected in late 2008 or early 2009. TraceMonkey already performs various benchmarks in 4.5 percent to 55 percent of the time taken by Firefox 3, and useful further improvements are thought possible.

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