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Implications of the Mozilla/Adobe Partnership

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the joint-company-picnics dept.

Fraggle writes "Recently the Mozilla Foundation and Adobe announced a partnership, working together on the next generation JavaScript/ActionScript JIT Virtual Machine. The Browser Den looks at what this means for the future of scripting in Mozilla, and how this partnership with Adobe may affect Mozilla's support for other technologies such as SVG." From the article: "On the Mozilla side the plan is to integrate to code with SpiderMonkey which is Mozilla's current JavaScript implementation that is written in C. This is needed because Tamarin is not a drop-in replacement for SpiderMonkey as it provides necessary features that are not available in Tamarin. The combined SpiderMonkey with integrated Tamarin should not have any problems with old JavaScript and should show a performance boost for most. However, skilled scripters are sure to find ways of optimising performance to get even more gains."

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  1. There goes the neighborhood by 72beetle · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh well, what's the next killer open source app that we use to thumb our noses at the man? This one's been assimilated.

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  2. Re:Say What? by dsginter · · Score: 4, Funny

    That would be like "combining" Windows and Mac OS X to make a better operating system. It doesn't quite work that way.

    That sound you hear is the thousands of Microsoft Windows programmers kicking the dirt and going back to the drawing board.

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  3. However, skilled scripters are sure to.. by Trigun · · Score: 2, Funny

    However, skilled scripters are sure to find ways of optimising performance to get even more gains."

    Like having Samy as your hero.