Basically, the old interpreter was fast, but inefficient if there was a lot of code to go through, because optimizing the code takes time. Since the majority of the web now consists of "lots of...
Basically, the old interpreter was fast, but inefficient if there was a lot of code to go through, because optimizing the code takes time. Since the majority of the web now consists of "lots of JavaScript code", this could take quite some time.
Mozilla has added a new feature so that the different parts of the interpreter work better together to share the load. Thus it now is faster if there is lots of code.
I didn't get most of what they said, but better performance is good, yay.
Anyone able to ELI5 what they were talking about?
Basically, the old interpreter was fast, but inefficient if there was a lot of code to go through, because optimizing the code takes time. Since the majority of the web now consists of "lots of JavaScript code", this could take quite some time.
Mozilla has added a new feature so that the different parts of the interpreter work better together to share the load. Thus it now is faster if there is lots of code.