As many of you are probably already aware, Mozilla has recently gotten into the mobile OS space with Firefox OS. Firefox OS is built using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and of course Javascript. All Firefox OS apps are built … Continue reading
This wednesday we landed the baseline compiler on Firefox nightly. After six months of work from start to finish, we are finally able to merge the fruits of our toils into the main release stream. What Is The Baseline Compiler? … Continue reading
One of the primary goals of JIT engines for dynamic languages is to make high-level code run fast by compiling it into efficient machine code. A key property of this, however, is that the compiled code for any piece of … Continue reading
