Firefox Improvements Could Make Browsing ‘20 To 40 Times Faster’
Most people seem to be pretty content with using Mozilla’s Firefox as a healthy alternative to Internet Explorer, the latest version of which set a new record for the most downloads in a 24-hour period. Firefox 4 is already being talked about in some circles, with one of the biggest reveals being a substantial speed increase due to the way the browser streamlines the loading of pages. Well, a cut-down version of this will allegedly be available for the current version when it gets updated to 3.1. If you’re interested in reading about how this works in detail check out the link below, where you’ll become familiar with technical terms such as nanojit and spidermonkeys. We’ll attempt to summarise here by saying that the optimisation engine works by increasing the speed at which the browser can handle Javascript by “recording the path of execution at runtime and generating compiled code that can be used the next time a particular path is reached”. In other words, it remembers what it has done before and simply repeats the commands instead of reloading them. Most importantly, Mozilla reckons this could yield performance improvements of 20 to 40 times faster than current methods. No date has been set yet for the release of the 3.1 update, which is currently in Alpha 2 stage, but we’ll certainly be keeping our eyes open for more information. - Paul Lester [ArsTechnica] Firefox browser java
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