Subj : Re: [Spidermonkey] Future versions?
To   : Brian Barnes <ggadwa@voyager.net>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Thu Dec 11 2003 10:25 am

Brian Barnes wrote:

> I'm just wondering if somebody could comment on future versions of 
> spidermonkey.  I use it and love it, and it's pretty fast, but for how I 
> use it, the faster the better!  Some of the proposed features -- for 
> instance, typing -- would obviously make the engine quite a bit faster.
> 
> Just wondering ... fine as is ... but I can always hope!

There are a number of perf and footprint bugs I'm going to work on in 
mozilla1.7.  Then there are ideas for a much faster runtime that have 
been percolating for years, but I'm not sure whether I'll have time to 
get to them.  They wouldn't be easy to do in SpiderMonkey while keeping 
API compatibility.  But first, I have a roadmap update and some "grand 
planning" to do for Mozilla, so you'll have to stay tuned.

/be

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