Asm.js in Firefox Nightly

Re:Asm.js in Firefox Nightly by kibwen on Thursday March 21, 2013 @04:49PM (#5418872)

This post mentions IonMonkey, which is the newest enhancement to Firefox's Javascript engine. According to http://arewefastyet.com/ , it appears to be doing pretty well so far (red is old Firefox, purple is current Firefox, black is future Firefox, green is Chrome, lower is always better). Excited to see what'll happen once OdinMonkey gets added to the mix.

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Re:Asm.js in Firefox Nightly by evilpie on Thursday March 21, 2013 @04:54PM (#5418912)

Nothing, at least not to the benchmarks currently on awfy. You need to opt-in into OdinMonkey optimizations with "use asm". And of course these benchmarks don't do it.

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Re:Asm.js in Firefox Nightly by mfunk on Thursday March 21, 2013 @05:04PM (#5418980)

Small correction: purple is current Firefox, not red. Red is not shipped in any build.

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Re:Asm.js in Firefox Nightly by kibwen on Thursday March 21, 2013 @05:16PM (#5419091)

Ah, I had no idea that IonMonkey had made its way to the stable release. Very cool.

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