Firefox 18 Beta Brings The IonMonkey Engine

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firefox 18 Beta Brings The IonMonkey Engine

Mozilla's Firefox 18 Beta web-browser released on Monday. New to this development release that's coming just one week after Firefox 17 is integrating the new IonMonkey JavaScript engine...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTIzNjg

[bug77]

Interesting that even though they have a new JS engine, they cite 64bit JS performace as one of the reasons for abandoning a 64bit Windows version of Firefox.

[uid313]

I would like to see IonMonkey benchmarks...

[timofonic]

Why not using LLVM directly? AMD uses it with their R600

NIH syndrome again...

[bug77]

I would like to see IonMonkey benchmarks...

It's not like they require some complex setup. Anyone can run them.

[Vadi]

Practically speaking, Firefox not being able to sync with Chrome's stored passwords and tabs are what is keeping me away from switching / using it on a daily basis. I don't feel there's a need to do a jump altogether, but wouldn't mind using both, however the lack of session sync between these two is a problem.

(the same would apply for Chrome as well if I was to be switching from Firefox, hypothetically speaking).

[kokoko3k]

I would like to see IonMonkey benchmarks...

I just did it, comparing firefox 17 vs aurora 19 using peacekeeper benchmark.
Aurora gave me about 1800 where firefox gave me about 1000. very nice speedup!

[curaga]

Why not using LLVM directly? AMD uses it with their R600

NIH syndrome again...

I was about to post this. With this iteration they seem to be reinventing even more of what LLVM does.

[oibaf]

Release notes:

• 18.0 beta;
• aurora 19.0a2.

[Delgarde]

I was about to post this. With this iteration they seem to be reinventing even more of what LLVM does.

Yes, well... Firefox *does* predate LLVM by quite a few years, and adding LLVM-like features into their own engine is probably a lot easier and safer than ripping out their own engine to plug LLVM in...