Since Brendan Eich wrote the first SpiderMonkey version in 1995, there have been many, many changes to its internal string representation. New string types like inline strings (more on this below) and ropes were added to save memory and improve … Continue reading
Firefox 32 Firefox uses two just-in-time compilers: Baseline and IonMonkey. When a web page contains some JavaScript code, this code is first executed in the interpreter. Then after running the same code multiple times, we compile the code with Baseline. … Continue reading
A monkey. That’s the default name a part in the JavaScript Engine of Mozilla Firefox gets. Even the full engine has its own monkey name, called Spidermonkey. 2013 has been a transformative year for the monkeys. New species have been … Continue reading
