Firefox 9: Faster on PCs, All-new on Tablets
Mozilla is laying claim to big performance improvements for Firefox 9
Mozilla released an update to Firefox. The new version of the browser
Firefox 9 comes with great performance improvements for desktops and an
entirely new look for Android according to the company. Now sites that
heavily rely on JavaScript like Web apps or ones that render games,
video, and 3D graphics will render much faster thanks to the new
JavaScript improvement called Type Inference.
Firefox 9 continues the browser's rapid-release development oscillation, where feature enhancements and performance improvements take the lead in alternating months.
The JavaScript improvement called Type Inference, which Mozilla spent more than a year developing, debuts on the PC version of Firefox. The short version is that sites that heavily rely on JavaScript--like Web apps or sites that render games, video, and 3D graphics--will render much, much faster.
What actually changed is this: A feature in Firefox's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine, Type Inference creates type information by both monitoring the types of values as the program runs and analyzing the program's code. The type information then gets used during just-in-time compilation to generate more efficient code, and Mozilla says that major benchmarks like its own Kraken test and Google's V8 show the browser running around 30 percent faster.
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