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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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