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SpiderMonkey Newsletter (Firefox 98-99) | SpiderMonkey JavaScript/WebAssembly Engine
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Some SpiderMonkey optimizations in Firefox Quantum
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| | [AI summary] This article details various performance optimizations implemented in the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine leading up to Firefox Quantum, including improvements to array handling, regular expressions, inline caches, and internal memory management.
| | yoric.github.io
JavaScript Binary AST Engineering Newsletter #1
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| | Hey, all cool kids have exciting Engineering Newsletters these days, so it's high time the JavaScript Binary AST got one! Summary JavaScript Binary AST is a joint project between Mozilla and Facebook to rethink how JavaScript source code is stored/transmitted/parsed. We expect that this project will help visibly speed up the loading of large codebases of JS applications and will have a large impact on the JS development community, including both web developers, Node developers, add-on developers and ourselves.
| | 2ality.com
JavaScript gains support for SIMD
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| | Update 2017-05-08: a proposal for SIMD.js has been rejected, in favor of providing similar functionality via WebAssembly. Recently, a new JavaScript feature has landed for the next Firefox Nightly: an API for SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data). This blog post explains how the API works and how it fits into the JavaScript landscape.
| | www.quirksmode.org
Quick Browser News - QuirksBlog
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| [AI summary] A summary of browser vendor news from June 2008, covering updates to Internet Explorer, Firefox 3, Safari 4, and Opera despite the author being on holiday.