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22nd August 2008 - Link Blog

TraceMonkey. Brendan Eich has been preaching the performance benefits of tracing and JIT for JavaScript on the conference circuit for at least a year, and the results from the first effort to be merged in to Mozilla core are indeed pretty astounding.

Posted 22nd August 2008 at 11:13 pm

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