ActionMonkey: Getting rid of the spiders in the browser
Written by on July 24th, 2007 in Ajax News.
John Resig has blogged about ActionMonkey which is the first real news that we have heard from Mozilla after Adobe donated Tamarin to the foundation:
ActionMonkey is Mozilla’s latest foray into a new JavaScript engine. It’s actually an amalgam of two of Mozilla’s current engines: SpiderMonkey (which powers the current Mozilla platform) and Tamarin (the ActionScript engine donated to Mozilla by Adobe).
The result will be what is used to run the upcoming Mozilla 2 platform.
The first stage (Stage 0) is to replace SpiderMonkey’s memory management with the garbage collection routiens of Tamarin (also called MMgc).
Other stages that need to be taken into account include:
- Preservation of the existing SpiderMonkey API.
- Integration of SpiderMonkey’s thread safety and property tree concepts into Tamarin (necessary for the security needed in web-based JavaScript).
- Replacement of SpiderMonkey’s decomplier with one that is compatible with Tamarin.
- Replacement of SpiderMonkey’s interpreter with an evolved version of Tamarin’s
- … and much more.
Great to see some momentum building.
Source: Ajaxian
Original Article: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/136928363/actionmonkey-getting-rid-of-the-spiders-in-the-browser