For those who don't know, Action Monkey [2] is the new JavaScript runtime
for Mozilla. It is an amalgamation of the existing SpiderMonkey JavaScript
runtime [3] and Adobe's Tamarin ECMA script Virtual Machine [4].
What this basically all means for users is that the first time you visit a
JavaScript heavy website, that code gets compiled down and cached so that
every time you visit the same page the load and execution of that page is a
_lot_ faster.
Its seriously cool shit.
Cool! I misunderstood the Adobe/Mozilla announcement and thought that
the Tamarin project was going to provide Mozilla browsers with Adobe
Flash support from its core. Presented on a FSF friendly license.
I like the sound of this, increasing the speed of JS is good news. Older
systems I find struggle with Ajax heavy sites.
As the builds are label with a Firefox 4.0, is this the obvious target
release of Action Monkey?
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