The “Break it Down” Blog

Tracing JavaScript Engine Coming in Firefox 3 Could Give 20-40x Performance Boost in Some Scenarios

Ars has a piece up about the Tracemonkey JavaScript engine work that we will first see in Firefox 3.1 (currently in nightlies) but is the first part of major JavaScript work known as Tamarin that won’t be seen until Firefox 4.0. Apparently the Mozilla JavaScript engine is getting worked over from the ground up with an [...]

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glTail.rb: Real Time OpenGL Log Visualization

“Fudgie” took a personal challenge from his boss to see if he could make log visualization interesting from your Apache log file. 1 week, some Ruby and some OpenGL later he created glTail.rb; a real-time Apache log visualization toolthat uses OpenGL to render some interesting effects that represent traffic (Supported on Mac and Linux). It’s hard [...]

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