Faster Firefox 3!
Published by: Codrut Nistor, in News
August25th2008
You know what's three times better than the iPhone? No, it's not the Samsung Instinct, and not even some revolutionary James Bond prototype from CIA or FBI! Obviously, if I would write about such a thing, I would be stone cold a few minutes after pressing the "Submit" button, and since we're not talking about phone prototypes, I think we should move on and play with the sentence above - you know what's seven times faster than the Firefox 3 browser?
...still nothing? Really? Now, that's a good question, don't you think? No matter how strange this may seem, Firefox 3.1 is seven times as fast as its predecessor. Don't ask me how's that possible, because I am fully aware of the fact this is extremely impressive, and also pretty hard to believe. If you think this is a rumor, then I also have to tell you this is not true, because this info comes straight from Mike Schroepfer, Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla.
You can see his post about this topic on the official Mozilla Blog - it's really worth your time, trust me!
According to John Resig, a JavaScript Evangelist for the Mozilla Corporation, "A fantastic new improvement to Mozilla's JavaScript engine (SpiderMonkey) has landed. Code-named TraceMonkey this engine utilizes a technique, called trace trees (PDF), which adds just-in-time native code compilation to SpiderMonkey. A major goal of the project has been to set JavaScript up to compete with natively-compiled code, rather than simply against other interpreters. This means that we're starting to see speeds that are completely out of this league when it comes to performance." Pretty cool, huh?
At last, if you're one of those courageous ones into trying Alpha-stage software, here's something for you - the faster Firefox 3 known as Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 can be downloaded already for the Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. Have fun with it(or maybe "crashing it")!
Oh, here's one more - I was just about to skip giving you the answer to the initial question - obviously, three iPhones are three times as good as one iPhone...or three times as bad, depends if you're looking at it on the bright side, or not.
...still nothing? Really? Now, that's a good question, don't you think? No matter how strange this may seem, Firefox 3.1 is seven times as fast as its predecessor. Don't ask me how's that possible, because I am fully aware of the fact this is extremely impressive, and also pretty hard to believe. If you think this is a rumor, then I also have to tell you this is not true, because this info comes straight from Mike Schroepfer, Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla.
You can see his post about this topic on the official Mozilla Blog - it's really worth your time, trust me!
According to John Resig, a JavaScript Evangelist for the Mozilla Corporation, "A fantastic new improvement to Mozilla's JavaScript engine (SpiderMonkey) has landed. Code-named TraceMonkey this engine utilizes a technique, called trace trees (PDF), which adds just-in-time native code compilation to SpiderMonkey. A major goal of the project has been to set JavaScript up to compete with natively-compiled code, rather than simply against other interpreters. This means that we're starting to see speeds that are completely out of this league when it comes to performance." Pretty cool, huh?
At last, if you're one of those courageous ones into trying Alpha-stage software, here's something for you - the faster Firefox 3 known as Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 can be downloaded already for the Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. Have fun with it(or maybe "crashing it")!
Oh, here's one more - I was just about to skip giving you the answer to the initial question - obviously, three iPhones are three times as good as one iPhone...or three times as bad, depends if you're looking at it on the bright side, or not.
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