While Google’s quickly-famous browser has been meticulously analyzed and received scads of praise for its new Java engine, Mozilla says it is ready to do one better. Dubbed “TraceMonkey,” beta versions of their new Javascript engine is already faster than Google’s V8, and is being prepared for the imminent Firefox 3.1.
Testing conducted on Mozilla’s refinements with the SunSpider Java benchmark reveals an improvement just shy of 20%. While Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich was quick to praise Google, saying that their new V8 JavaScript engine was “very-well engineered,” he held the belief that Firefox would “only get faster.”
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