An nameless reader writes "IonMonkey is the name of Mozilla's new JIT compiler, which aims to enable many new optimizations in the SpiderMonkey engine. InfoQ had a small Q&A with Lead developer David Anderson, about this new evolution that could bring meaning improvements in produce that use the SpiderMonkey engine like Firefox, Thunderbird, Adobe Acrobat, MongoDB and more.
This new JIT infrastructure, will feature SSA compiler intermediate representations which will facilitate llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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