Download Firefox 22 Alpha
With OdinMonkey (see benchmarks below).
Good news for all the Firefox enthusiasts out there, Mozilla has just released the very first alpha build of Firefox 22, which includes OdinMonkey module.
What’s that? Basically it’s an asm.js optimization module for Firefox’s JavaScript engine that has a potential to run your code at 2x its native performance, all developers have to do is compile C or C++ to JavaScript by using Expect transcompiler. Mozilla promised to share more about asm.js module in the upcoming GDC conference later this week.
So what does this performance increase look like? Here’s your answer:
If all goes well, the final build of Firefox 22 will enable OdinMonkey by default and it should be available sometime in June.
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Firefox 22 Alpha
[Via: TechCrunch]
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There is something I don’t understand: the optimization is for all javascript in webpages or webapp (Gmail, Greader …) or it’s for applications specifically written for this new engine? … this is an important question IMHO
only for js code tagged with “use asm.js”
only for js code tagged with “use asm.js”
Clang aint that performance focused.
But comparision of odin vs no odin is huge enough :D
It should be pointed out that version 22 of Firefox, is still on the nightly channel and won’t move to the aurora channel until sometime during the first week of April. It’s great to see though, that Firefox is making more improvements in the performance department regardless of whether that’s responsiveness or memory, JavaScript or whatever else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsyogXtyU9o
Unreal Engine 3.0 running natively on Firefox