A few weeks ago Vlad had the chance to do performance tests across a variety of different devices. He’s picked up a Droid as part of his Android work, also has access to an N900, and I also know he’s proud to admit that’s he’s a Zune HD owner.
Firefox for Mobile has been getting [...]
Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is available for downloading and testing. I’ve been using it now for a few days with TraceMonkey enabled and it seems pretty stable for me (aside from the lack of extensions.)
I also wrote up a big post that goes over some of the new web developer features in this beta [...]
So, V8. Well-hyped. It’s got a cool logo. And many claims are being made about its performance. But it is not the only kid on the block. As we blogged about a couple of weeks ago, Mozilla has been investing over the last couple of months in a super-fast JS [...]
There have been a pile of posts about the TraceMonkey code that just landed in mozilla-central. mozilla-central is the source code repository we’re using in the lead up to Firefox 3.1. Here are some posts if you want to read about it:
Brendan Eich: TraceMonkey: JavaScript Lightspeed
John Resig: TraceMonkey
Mike Schroepfer: What can you do [...]