Firefox's Next JavaScript Engine Will Borrow from WebKit [Firefox] (Lifehacker)

9 March 2010, 7:14 am

# firefox Mozilla's home-brewed JavaScript engine for its Firefox browsers, TraceMonkey, has impressed us before , but in the raw benchmark game, it's starting to fall behind its competitors . To up its game, Firefox's developers are building a new engine, dubbed JägerMonkey . Ars Technica writes that the new compiler uses some open-source WebKit code to get the job done, including parts of ...... Read More »

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