Warp: Improved JavaScript performance in Firefox 83

[TangerineDream]

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/11/warp-improved-js-performance-in-firefox-83/

[ksec]

"With Warp we have replaced the frontend (the MIR building phase) of the IonMonkey JIT. The next step is removing the old code and architecture. This will likely happen in Firefox 85. We expect additional performance and memory usage improvements from that."

Interesting I wonder how does it compared to Safari on Speedometer.

Edit: Firefox 83 - 71 Safari 14 - 77

[brundolf]

I wonder if there's room to have a fork of Node that uses SpiderMonkey as a "back-end" in place of V8? It would be cool to introduce competition in that space. I don't know how tightly-coupled Node currently is to V8 (compared to other adherents of the JS standard).

[zingplex → brundolf]

Mozilla worked on this a while ago with SpiderNode but it is no longer maintained. It was actually based on Microsoft's work to do the same thing with ChakraCore.

[ldng → brundolf]

Wouldn't forking GJS [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs] and adding Node compatibility API faster/simpler ?

[foolmeonce → brundolf]

It seemed interesting to me that deno combines V8 and rust.

It might be interesting (and not yet as complicated as with node) to make a spidermonkey version of deno.

[aitchnyu]

What does the innovation pipeline at Mozilla look like nowadays? Will it dry up drastically soon?

[dblohm7 → aitchnyu]

I don’t think so. Sure, the Emerging Technologies division was shut down, but most of the Gecko team was left intact.

(I am a Mozilla employee.)

[justforyou]

Would be great if stabilizing firefox on mobile happened before this nonsense.

[jdlshore → justforyou]

Not only are you being unacceptably rude, you’re making the unfounded assumption that these developers have anything to do with the mobile apps.

[justforyou → jdlshore]

I'm not making any assumptions about developers. I'm making a comment about Mozilla as an organization, and Firefox as a product.

Rudeness is in the eye if the beholder, but seems like you're taking this personally, and with a thin skin.