JavaScript getting 20 to 40 times faster? How?
Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, in this article by Ryan Paul of Ars Technica, discusses how Mozilla is "'getting ready to take JavaScript performance into the next tier' with a radically innovative optimization tactic called tracing that has already produced performance improvements ranging between 20 and 40 times faster in some cases."
The Mozilla JavaScript engine (SpiderMonkey) is what's inside the Firefox browser and the Aptana Jaxer, Ajax server.
"Eich says that Mozilla wants to 'get people thinking about JavaScript as a more general-purpose language' and show them that 'it really is a platform for writing full applications.'"
