JaegerMonkey – Fast JavaScript, Always!
Mozilla’s JavaScript optimizer, TraceMonkey, is pretty powerful. It carefully observes loops and converts them to super-fast assembly. We call this “tracing”. That’s great and all, but there’s a...
View ArticleAre We Fast Yet?
Seems like Are We Fast Yet has spread around a bit, so I’d like to talk about it. It started as a joke, suggested by Dave Mandelin, in the JavaScript “pit” at Mozilla. I made a site that displayed a...
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JägerMonkey has Crossed the Streams
On July 12th, JägerMonkey officially crossed TraceMonkey on the v8 suite of benchmarks. Yay! It’s not by a lot, but this gap will continue to widen, and it’s an exciting milestone. A lot’s happened...
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Land Ho, Fast JavaScript!
Firefox just got a whole lot faster. I’m excited to announce that Mozilla’s new JavaScript engine, JägerMonkey, is now available for testing! What is JägerMonkey? JägerMonkey is our new optimizing JIT...
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JavaScript Checkers
I’ve been itching to write some JavaScript, so a few days ago I threw together a Checkers game that uses only HTML5 and JS. It’s got a simple AI that terminates after three seconds. The faster your...
View ArticleDebugging 500 Errors
For the past two years, the AlliedModders site has been randomly dishing out “HTTP 500 – Internal Server Error” responses. It’s been pretty frustrating. I actually tried debugging the errors two years...
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On Indonesia and Being Justin Bieber
Two weeks ago, a bunch of Mozillans went on a whirlwind tour of Indonesia, visiting Firefox 4 release parties around the country. We had a great time, and I found the trip really enlightening. Luke...
View ArticleInheritance Without Types
At AlliedModders we dabble in practical language design. Our two major scripting projects, AMX Mod X and SourceMod, iterated on our own fork of a scrappy language called Pawn. Our next iteration is...
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Making a Card Game Prototype
Recently I wanted to try quickly prototyping a few card game ideas, but I couldn’t find much information on how to actually do it. After a few iterations I figured I’d jot down what I ended up doing....
View ArticleThe Evolution of Building at AlliedModders
AlliedModders recently passed its ten year anniversary. That’s literally crazy. At some point I’d like to do a longer post on its history and the people who made it happen – but today I wanted to talk...
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