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Firefox 9 has winged its way to various mirrors across the web and is now available to download from the official Firefox website. If you've been using either IE or Chrome because of their superior ...

Mozilla has just rolled out OdinMonkey, a new module for Firefox's JavaScript engine that promises to speed up JavaScript execution beyond your wildest dreams. If you were drawn to Chrome because of ...

No one expected the iPhone to deliver desktop-class performance with regard to Web-based applications, but JavaScript speed on the iPhone is downright sluggish in most respects -- a frustrating fact ...

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While the pre-release build of iPhone OS 2.0, officially available only to select developers and beta testers, is sluggish and buggy overall, one area of operation has seen a dramatic performance ...

I'm developing a JavaScript application that has some non-essential functionality that is slow for older browsers (the main concern is the corporate IE6). I would like to warn (or possibly just ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. JavaScript can deliver highly interactive websites that actively engage the user in a way HTML ...

On by default in Firefox 83, the Warp update to the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine improves responsiveness and memory usage and speeds up page loads Firefox users can expect improved JavaScript ...

‘Super-fast’ non-optimizing Sparkplug compiler, which compiles bytecode to machine code, makes its debut in V8 9.1 and Chrome 91. With the Sparkplug compiler, Google is looking to improve JavaScript ...

I'm getting confused by all the monkeys. SpiderMonkey is the "script engine". JagerMonkey is the current JIT for SpiderMonkey, and IonMonkey is an improvement over JagerMonkey. ??? The naming needs to ...