The recent posts about TraceMonkey and JavaScript performance have all focused on x86, because, unsurprisingly, the majority of the web’s desktop users are on x86 platforms.  However, mobile and handheld platforms are going to quickly become consumers of the full web, and core performance gains will often yield much more significant user-percptible performance improvements.  For [...]

A bunch of things have happened over the past few weeks, and if I didn’t write about them now, chances are I would’ve given up and just dropped them on the floor.  Shortly after returning from the Mozilla Summit — and surviving power outages (except for our wireless network, it stayed up, even though the [...]