Yea, I figured it wouldn't make an enormous difference since the vast majority of "power" is left to Erl. Interesting still! Thanks Chris
----- Original Message ---- From: Chris Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:40:51 PM Subject: Re: Any benefit in the pipe from TraceMonkey? On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Bradford Winfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just curious about CouchDB's performance (not that I have any problem > with it at the moment). As the buzz surrounding FireFox's javascript support > amplifies with each day they get closer to the 3.0.1 release, does this mean > that there will be some way to slip TraceMonkey into the mix and reap any > benefits? Just curious - as I will have a success story to share with the > masses using CouchDB as a backend very, very soon. > In my experience, Javascript view evaluation is not a large part of the time spent in view generation. Of course a faster Javascript engine will speed things up, but the work that is currently being done to make CouchDB take advantage of more cores may have a greater effect. That said, I'm not sure what roadblocks (if any) there are to using TraceMonkey. Chris -- Chris Anderson http://jchris.mfdz.com
