Tiffany B. Brown

A web log about web development and internet culture with frequent detours into other stuff.

Posts tagged: canvas

JavaScript in Firefox 3.1 will be wicked fast
John Resig of jQuery fame, has a post about a huge performance boost coming to Firefox 3.1: TraceMonkey. TraceMonkey, Resig explains, uses a computing technique known as trace trees (PDF) which adds just-in-time native code compilation to SpiderMonkey, Firefox’s current rendering engine. What does this mean? As Resig explains: It means that JavaScript is no longer confined [...] [24 Aug 2008]