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2008

SquirrelFish. WebKit’s JavaScript engine was no slouch, but that hasn’t stopped them from replacing it with a brand new “register-based, direct-threaded, high-level bytecode engine, with a sliding register window calling convention”. It runs 1.6x faster and has the Best Logo Ever.

# 3rd June 2008, 7:57 am / bytecode, javascript, logo, performance, safari, squirrelfish, webkit