2009/9/9 Rohan Nicholls <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Deniz Dogan<[email protected]> wrote: >> 2009/9/8 aditya siram <[email protected]>: >> That being said, I'd be surprised if the developers at Mozilla aren't >> investigating ways to make the platform as fast as it once used to be, >> so all hope isn't lost, I think. > > For one thing they are completely reimplementing the javascript > engine, much like V8 of chrome fame. I would hope that when this > enters the mainline (unless I am very out of date and it already has) > it should improve everything javascript run.
I think the new engine is already out, but I can't remember which versions of XULRunner it comes with. I'm using 1.9.1 and if I'm not mistaken I am using the new engine. > I am hoping that they > will also be supporting multithreading etc. as V8 does. Hmm, come to > think of it, I wonder why they are not just using V8? > According to some performance tests, Tracemonkey (Mozilla) is faster than V8[1]. Also, V8 is under some BSD license and I'm not sure if that's compatible with Mozilla's "tri-license" that Wikipedia says that Gecko and XULRunner have. -- Deniz Dogan [1] http://andreasgal.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/tracemonkey-vs-v8/ _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
