Comments on: Javascript performance is about to get turbo-charged http://heliologue.com/2008/08/24/javascript-performance-is-about-to-get-turbo-charged/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:16:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben http://heliologue.com/2008/08/24/javascript-performance-is-about-to-get-turbo-charged/#comment-165519 Ben Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:10:39 +0000 http://heliologue.com/?p=2305#comment-165519 Oh, they expose it to about:config? I thought it wasn't actually enabled at buildtime in the mainstream nightlies. Sweet. Oh, they expose it to about:config? I thought it wasn’t actually enabled at buildtime in the mainstream nightlies.

Sweet.

]]> By: Conor http://heliologue.com/2008/08/24/javascript-performance-is-about-to-get-turbo-charged/#comment-165515 Conor Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:14:16 +0000 http://heliologue.com/?p=2305#comment-165515 Yeah, you just have to <a href="http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?p=213689#post213689" rel="nofollow">enable it</a>. Yeah, you just have to enable it.

]]> By: Ben http://heliologue.com/2008/08/24/javascript-performance-is-about-to-get-turbo-charged/#comment-165511 Ben Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:34:26 +0000 http://heliologue.com/?p=2305#comment-165511 Er, is it enabled in the latest nightlies? I think I'd go for the latest <a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-tracemonkey/" rel="nofollow">Tracemonkey build</a>. Er, is it enabled in the latest nightlies? I think I’d go for the latest Tracemonkey build.

]]> By: Conor http://heliologue.com/2008/08/24/javascript-performance-is-about-to-get-turbo-charged/#comment-165497 Conor Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:06:45 +0000 http://heliologue.com/?p=2305#comment-165497 Have you played around with Minefield yet? I'm not sure when 3.1 is due, but I'd give it a month or two after that. =P I've only tinkered with it a little—so far it seems stable enough to use as full-time until 3.1, which was a huge surprise to me—and I've been impressed with some speed increases on AJAXified sites, but obviously the real-world differences are not quite as impressive as the bar charts everyone is tossing around. I tried it on places like Dipity and it still choked a lot, but I'm not willing to blame Firefox for performance issues there, as Dipity is young and likely having a lot of ironing out of code to do on their end. Anyway, it's interesting to say the least. I do recommend you <a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/" rel="nofollow">grab it</a>. Have you played around with Minefield yet? I’m not sure when 3.1 is due, but I’d give it a month or two after that. =P

I’ve only tinkered with it a little—so far it seems stable enough to use as full-time until 3.1, which was a huge surprise to me—and I’ve been impressed with some speed increases on AJAXified sites, but obviously the real-world differences are not quite as impressive as the bar charts everyone is tossing around.

I tried it on places like Dipity and it still choked a lot, but I’m not willing to blame Firefox for performance issues there, as Dipity is young and likely having a lot of ironing out of code to do on their end.

Anyway, it’s interesting to say the least. I do recommend you grab it.

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