IonMonkey is the name of Mozilla’s current JavaScript JIT compiler, which aims to enable many new optimizations that were impossible with the prior JägerMonkey architecture.
IonMonkey is a more traditional compiler: it translates SpiderMonkey bytecode into a control flow graph, using static single assignment form (SSA) for the intermediate representation. This architecture enables well-known optimizations from other programming languages to be used for JavaScript, including type specialization, function inlining, linear-scan register allocation, dead code elimination, and loop-invariant code motion.
The compiler can emit fast native code translations of JavaScript functions on the ARM, x86, and x86-64 platforms.
I'm going to give 19b1 a try. doubt there are any changes there either.
I've turned these updates off, it's just pathetic releasing new version every 6 weeks :rolleyes: what is different from 4 versions ago? Cannot see any changes at all, not going to update mine again unless it's a significant change to the browser proberbly by Xmas on version 25 :rolleyes:
They broke an add-on I use to retain a user interface I prefer, so I'm stuck on one several versions old. Bah.
I don't want to have to adapt to their idea of what controls I get, and where they are, I like it my way. Really annoys me how they change things and don't provide a way to get it back as it was.
They broke an add-on I use to retain a user interface I prefer, so I'm stuck on one several versions old. Bah.
I don't want to have to adapt to their idea of what controls I get, and where they are, I like it my way. Really annoys me how they change things and don't provide a way to get it back as it was.
i got fed up of regular updates not working with addons, somebody suggested the ESR version.
it has all the latest security fixes, but may lack some of the latest bling.
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Not noticed a speed increase, maybe because my PC is quite fast already and the increase is more noticeable on lower spec PCs.
IonMonkey is the name of Mozilla’s current JavaScript JIT compiler, which aims to enable many new optimizations that were impossible with the prior JägerMonkey architecture.
IonMonkey is a more traditional compiler: it translates SpiderMonkey bytecode into a control flow graph, using static single assignment form (SSA) for the intermediate representation. This architecture enables well-known optimizations from other programming languages to be used for JavaScript, including type specialization, function inlining, linear-scan register allocation, dead code elimination, and loop-invariant code motion.
The compiler can emit fast native code translations of JavaScript functions on the ARM, x86, and x86-64 platforms.
I'm going to give 19b1 a try. doubt there are any changes there either.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/09/new_firefox_javascript_speed/
No point because FF18.01 will be around the corner probably in the next week or so. Mozilla fixing a security hole no doubt.
Better than NOT fixing a security hole I would have thought, or delaying that fix until the next release.
You need to get out more.
Did you miss his irony?
Don't really have the time at the moment. Maybe I'll do one for Firefox 20.0 in a month or two
it doesnt!
i got fed up of regular updates, somebody suggested the ESR version.
it has all the latest security fixes, but may lack some of the latest bling.
But stability was more important to me.
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all.html
That one might be worth having a launch party for, who knows?
Dont notice my Firefox updating either, not a PITA for me
Chrome is naughty though, it will start to download stuff without asking what you want to do with it. :eek:
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http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1776466&page=2
I don't want to have to adapt to their idea of what controls I get, and where they are, I like it my way. Really annoys me how they change things and don't provide a way to get it back as it was.
Thats why i was advised to use the ESR Version.
I only updated to 17 a couple of weeks ago.
Won't the ESR version 'update' to the 'new shiny' eventually?