Over the past year or so I’ve almost doubled the speed of SpiderMonkey’s JavaScript parser.  I did this by speeding up both the scanner (bug 564369, bug 584595, bug 588648, bug 639420, bug 645598) and the parser (bug 637549).  I used patch stacks in several of those bugs, and so in those six bugs I actually landed 28 changesets. Notable things … Continue reading Faster JavaScript parsing