super cool web workers
This looks super awesome to me.
I can't wait for Web developers to be able to start using this and the massive performance advantages that will come with TraceMonkey.
With Firefox 3.0 still taking the web by storm, it's thrilling to know that Firefox 3.1 is gonna rock this hard.
(And for those Web devs fretting over further Firefox version fragmentation, we're taking care of you. We've already seen more than half of our Firefox 2 users move to Firefox 3 and the rest are following very quickly. The transitions will be quick and the features almost all additive.)
reactions, thoughts, comments, etc.
What about non-JS related performances, such as good old HTML/CSS rendering?
I know JS is used in several parts of Firefox itself, as well as extensions, but concerning sites that use little to no JS, Chrome is currently much faster than Firefox 3 on my computer (around 1.5 time faster). I wonder whether optimizing JS performances (which is still a good thing to do, of course) will indirectly improve that at all.
Posted by: Stifu | September 5, 2008 3:06 AM
@Stifu -
We are making improvements there as well. Check out the recent DOM work that's mentioned in Ben's blog:
http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2008-09-04/profiling-dromaeo-testcases-with-shark/
The patch that Jason landed that Ben mentions gives a good perf boost to our DOM interactions which is where a lot of interactive overhead is found. JS perf is part of the larger picture, but we haven't lost sight of the rest of that picture, rest assured.
Posted by: Christopher Blizzard | September 5, 2008 9:28 AM
Good to hear, Christopher, thanks for the heads up. :)
Posted by: Stifu | September 6, 2008 3:12 AM