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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. Re:JägerMonkey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The correct transliteration of German umlauts ä, ö and ü is "ae", "oe" and "ue". JaegerMonkey is correct.

  2. Re:Competition by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please elaborate Why not?

  3. Free as in Beer by DIplomatic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It really blows my mind that there is such fierce competition between internet browsers. It's rare to see this level of intense drive and innovation for a free product.

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

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

  5. Re:Competition by BZ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mozilla is not just open source, it's also open. Open in the sense that all project management (and indeed everything else) is done in the open as much as possible. There are no secret project crash landings of the sort that Chrome was or the current iteration of the Safari JS engine, unless there are external requirements for such (as there were with WebM).

    This has the benefit that project contributors who are not Mozilla employees can fully participate in goal-setting and development. It does have the drawback that competitors can borrow the ideas, and possibly even ship them first; this happens all the time. This is viewed as an acceptable cost of doing business in an open way.

  6. Re:Competition by ultranova · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nah. The best thing would be if they finally separated everything into their own threads so that the entire UI would not lock just because Javascript in some tab is busy, or some download stalled, or a big table is being rendered, or whatever.

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  7. 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.

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

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

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