It's nice to see some actual good news involving Firefox. With all of the leadership and financial struggles lately, it's made me worry that the browser I've been using for the last 17 years doesn't have long to live. Hopefully that is not the case.
Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster
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Re: Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster
#12Nice! There's still cool cpp stuff going on in Firefox. This is one example.
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/js/src/jit/Warp...
Re: Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster
#13The current title ("significantly faster") on HN is suboptimal. What is there written relating the speed is that the new implementation: "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 investigat…
5-15% on web content is significantly faster to me. Also, like many people, I mainly use my browser for visiting websites instead of running things like Octane, but obviously it would be nicer if Octane were faster too.
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Pretty sure v8 gets a few orders of magnitude more attention and development resources than jvm and graal.
You're probably right about Graal, but there is no way that V8 has significantly more effort put into it than the JVM. At best, they're roughly similar, but I suspect that the JVM has quite a bit more development time and effort put into it.
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#15Re: Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster
#16The current title ("significantly faster") on HN is suboptimal. What is there written relating the speed is that the new implementation: "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 investigat…
What updated title would you propose?
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#17Re: Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster
#18That's browsers for you these days. They ignore browsing features and concentrate on being a faster javascript engine for buying things and streaming video.
I'd say more but that google groups link requires logging in to a google acount.
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#19Link goes to google login page - please don't just don't ever do this again.
Re: Firefox's JIT is getting significantly faster
#20The current title ("significantly faster") on HN is suboptimal. What is there written relating the speed is that the new implementation: "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 investigat…
What updated title would you propose?
> What updated title would you propose?
I believe, per HN policies, the most appropriate would be the title from the page: "Dogfooding Warp"