JavaScript performance boost opens interesting doors September 2, 2008
Posted by spikew in JavaScript.add a comment
Following Google’s announcement about their Chrome browser today, it struck me that there has been a string of interesting announcements in the last few months about technologies being built by Apple, Google, Mozilla, and Adobe to dramatically improve the performance of JavaScript.
- http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/02/giving-google-chrome-a-spin-this-thing-moves-fast/
- http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080822-firefox-to-get-massive-javascript-performance-boost.html
- http://webkit.org/blog/189/announcing-squirrelfish/
The scale of these performance increases will likely affect the way web applications are built in the next few years as it should make it possible to run heavily JavaScript-based applications at much better speeds.
Technologies likely to benefit from these performance increases include:
- JavaScript frameworks and libraries
- JavaScript-focused development tools (since heavy JS coding will become more popular)
- Client-side mashups
- JS-accessible webservices
- Rich internet applications that run on the browser’s native HTML+JS engine
- Compilers and transcoders that "compile" popular programming languages (like Java or C#) into Javascript
List of high-performance JavaScript Engines
…so where’s Microsoft’s entrance into this performance party??
