Subj : Re: Speed and API changes since RC1
To   : Tim Xex <timxex@yahoo.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Thu Feb 26 2004 10:08 am

Tim Xex wrote:

> 1) Has the overall speed of SpiderMonkey increased substantially since 
> RC1?  I went through all the release notes for all the RCs and found 
> about 10 bug fixes that improved performance in specific areas, but it 
> is hard to get a feel for overall performance improvement.


I haven't measured, but we've optimized a number of things: repeated 
string concatenation on the right, garbage collection of a large heap, etc.

> 2) How hard would it be to drop RC6 into a port of RC1?  I.e. has the 
> API changed substantially since then. 


No.  We keep the API compatible.

/be

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