Speed improvements in Firefox 3.1

Computerworld has an interesting story on experiments with a new Javascript interpreter for Firefox 3.1, scheduled for release late this year or early 2009:

Mozilla turbocharges Firefox, touts major speed gains

According to benchmark tests, the new “TraceMonkey” interpreter is about 2.4 times faster than the hitherto fastest interpreter, found in Apple’s Safari browser.
Though still at the alpha stage, and disabled by default in the latest Firefox nightly, the speed gains give promise to a whole range of new uses and applications for the Firefox browser.

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