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Some SpiderMonkey Optimizations in Firefox Quantum
90 points by jandem
https://jandemooij.nl/blog/2017/12/06/some-spidermonkey-optimiza...___________________________________________________________________
Sylos - 2 hours ago
Thanks for posting. I was already wondering, if SpiderMonkey didn't
get the memo of Quantum coming or what, because I never heard much
about it when seemingly every other team was touting their horn.
mmastrac - 2 hours ago
Kudos.Also, this is a fantastic format for an article if you're
looking to communicate developer value to a wider audience.
fpoling - 1 hours ago
Nice to see the property work finally removed getClass hooks. I
remember trying to remove those like 6 years ago, but I thought the
breakage would be too big to even try. SpiderMonkey is in good
hands!
jandem - 1 hours ago
Thanks. Removing these hooks would have been a lot more
complicated 6 years ago: I'm pretty sure the new WebIDL DOM
bindings got rid of many of them over the years. I also replaced
some of the Class hooks with proxies, did proxies even exist back
then? :)
fpoling - 44 minutes ago
The proxies already existed at that time, but the idea of using
them in the native code to replace hooks did not :)