Hey guys, I thought Id mention that while rummaging through ftp.mozilla.org I found out that there are now nightly builds of Firefox with ActionMonkey [1] for Linux and Mac OS X.
For those who don't know, Action Monkey [2] is the new JavaScript runtime for Mozilla. It is an amalgamation of the existing SpiderMonkey JavaScript runtime [3] and Adobe's Tamarin ECMA script Virtual Machine [4]. What this basically all means for users is that the first time you visit a JavaScript heavy website, that code gets compiled down and cached so that every time you visit the same page the load and execution of that page is a _lot_ faster. Its seriously cool shit. Check it out :) James [1] http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-actionmonkey/ [2] http://wiki.mozilla.org/JavaScript:ActionMonkey#Project_summary [3] http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/ [4] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
