Re:V8 Release 5.0 (upcoming)
by coldtea on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @02:54PM
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Nope.
In fact Mozilla was somewhat earlier to come up with their JIT-ed JS engine, then Google (v8), then Apple (JSC), but all went live with an insignificant time difference between them (all within a few months in 2008).
(Insignificant since the respective companies have already been working on them simultaneously for years -- so going live was mostly based on who wrapped up first, bugs be damned, not on some unique innovation that others later copied).
In fact Mozilla was somewhat earlier to come up with their JIT-ed JS engine, then Google (v8), then Apple (JSC), but all went live with an insignificant time difference between them (all within a few months in 2008).
(Insignificant since the respective companies have already been working on them simultaneously for years -- so going live was mostly based on who wrapped up first, bugs be damned, not on some unique innovation that others later copied).