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]