Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT

Re:Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT by tambourine_man on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @06:42PM (#7741091)

I'm so glad to see that Webkit is not dead after the Blink fork. I still use Safari as my main browser, but its developer tools and optimizing compiler lag behind.

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Re:Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT by phoboslab on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @07:45PM (#7741318)

Right, but seeing the speed comparison with the LLINT makes me really sad that we can't even use the baseline JIT in iOS Apps. I still have some hope that Apple works on a way to run JSC in an isolated, trusted process that is allowed to use the JIT. Otherwise the new FTL JIT doesn't get us anything in many cases.

[1] http://www.webkit.org/blog-files/ftl-jit/four_tier_performan...

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Re:Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT by higherpurpose on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @03:39AM (#7742643)

And allow other competing engines on the platform, while they're at it.

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