Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster

"improves responsiveness and page load performance significantly (we're seeing 5-15% improvements on many visual metrics tests). Speedometer is about 10% faster with Warp."

"Warp is currently slower on various synthetic JS benchmarks such as Octane (which we will continue investigating in the coming months) but should perform well on web content."

It seems it can in the longer term generally improve though, and simplifications are always better.

Re: Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster

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Post by 5- » Fri, Sep 25, 2020, 3:19 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

Here is the link that doesn't require a Google login: https://archive.is/SFFph

thank you!

interestingly a very similar link appears to not require a google login, but requires javascript:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.platform/1PHhx...

i wonder what's going on.

Re: Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster

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Post by speedgoose » Fri, Sep 25, 2020, 3:26 PM UTC

The_rationalist wrote: post #4

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The last thing I want in my browser is a JVM.

Re: Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster

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Post by wongarsu » Fri, Sep 25, 2020, 3:28 PM UTC

The_rationalist wrote: post #4

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>If only they could merge with V8 progress would actually reach everyone

Having two competing implementations forces both into a performance competition, and encourages work on standards to ensure compatibility. Firefox switching to V8 might help in the short term, but long term it would likely be to the detriment of everyone

Re: Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster

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Post by arghwhat » Fri, Sep 25, 2020, 3:29 PM UTC

The_rationalist wrote: post #4

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Pretty sure v8 gets a few orders of magnitude more attention and development resources than jvm and graal.