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Mozilla's New JavaScript Engine Coming September 1

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the believe-when-it-parses dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla has reached an important milestone as its new JavaScript engine, 'JaegerMonkey,' is now faster than the current 'TraceMonkey' in a key benchmark. Mozilla wants JaegerMonkey to be faster than the competition and launch on September 1, which means that JaegerMonkey will make it into Firefox 4.0."

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  1. Competition by Dan+East · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know Firefox is open source, but is it wise to broadcast their intentions so publicly months in advance? Especially when it has to do with competing against other browsers.

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    1. Re:Competition by bsDaemon · · Score: 5, Funny

      Because the Taliban might start training their monkeys to interpret Javascript, too.

    2. Re:Competition by Big+Boss · · Score: 4, Funny

      The new and improved TalibanMonkey Javascript engine! It flies code into large webpages and DDOSes any script that mentions Muhamad. :)

    3. Re:Competition by Arancaytar · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's not exactly a huge leap of innovation, since monkeys already writing Javascript.

      I can't explain some of the code I've seen, otherwise.

    4. Re:Competition by H0p313ss · · Score: 4, Funny

      Because the Taliban might start training their monkeys to interpret Javascript, too.

      Silence, I kill you!

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    5. Re:Competition by StikyPad · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're thinking of AlQuedaMonkey. TalibanMonkey tally me bananas.

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