- Mar 15, 2011
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Mozilla has been working on improving Firefox's memory performance lately. Some of the improvements should already be visible in the latest Firefox 7 stable release, but testing releases, Firefox 8 and Firefox 9 move things even further along.
But Mozilla is not done yet, is is now working on slimming down its JavaScript engine, SpiderMonkey, and has made some rather big changes to come in Firefox 10 and Firefox 11.
As Mozilla notes, SpiderMonkey is being put on a diet. Its inner-workings are being rewritten and redesigned to take up as little space as possible.
Mozilla developer Nicholas Nethercote has all the details on it, but, unless you're a developer too, it's not exactly light reading.
Suffice to say, Mozilla is leaving no stone unturned. Some of the changes have been implemented, but many are in the works while some are just theoretical at this point.
One thing that is more concrete though is that TraceMonkey is being deprecated and is being removed gradually. As of Firefox 9, which introduced type inference, TraceMonkey was disabled for web content.
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