JavaScript first steps In our first JavaScript module, we first answer some fundamental questions such as "what is JavaScript?", "what does it look like?", and "what ...

The folks at Mozilla have souped up JavaScript with a new just-in-time compilation scheme in a project known as TraceMonkey, which boosts JavaScript performance as much as 22.5 times depending on ...

Mozilla Labs has released a Javascript engine (Narcissus engine and Zaphod script look-up tool) built to help coders test and help developers gain a deeper understanding of the code used to build the ...

Mozilla's high-performance TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which was first introduced in 2008, has lost a lot of its luster as competing browser vendors have stepped up their game to deliver superior ...

Mozilla is pursuing parallelism for JavaScript in an attempt to fully leverage available hardware capabilities. To achieve the goal of parallelism, Mozilla is experimenting with a SharedArrayBuffer ...

Over the weekend, Mozilla has announced the launch of a new Mozilla JavaScript API they have developed that will debut in their Firefox OS. This new API has been designed to make it easy for people to ...