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* [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript JS pages] at the [http://developer.mozilla.org Mozilla Developer Center (MDC)]. | * [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript JS pages] at the [http://developer.mozilla.org Mozilla Developer Center (MDC)]. | ||
* [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Rhino Rhino documentation at MDC]. Rhino is an implementation of JavaScript in Java. | * [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Rhino Rhino documentation at MDC]. Rhino is an implementation of JavaScript in Java. | ||
== Hackers == | |||
* [[JavaScript:Hackers|JavaScript engine hackers and areas of expertise]] | |||
== Active Projects == | == Active Projects == | ||
Revision as of 00:24, 11 March 2011
JavaScript language and implementation plans go here. For background, see:
- JS items in Brendan's roadmap blog.
- The Mozilla JS language page.
- "So you're new to SpiderMonkey" is a guide for new contributors to the JavaScript engine.
- The ECMAScript (ES) language site.
- JS pages at the Mozilla Developer Center (MDC).
- Rhino documentation at MDC. Rhino is an implementation of JavaScript in Java.
Hackers
Active Projects
- TraceMonkey, the addition of native-code compilation to SpiderMonkey
- JägerMonkey, a new baseline JIT compiler for SpiderMonkey
- JavaScript:?Monkey, goals
- Tamarin, the new virtual machine for ActionScript that's already in Flash.
- Make mostly-dense arrays blazingly fast. Latest bug: type-specialized Arrays.
- Context-thread the SpiderMonkey interpreter.
- Expose ECMA 262 Regular Expression API to C/C++ clients.
- A new SpiderMonkey API for building and inspecting parse trees.
- Narcissus (source code).
Blue Sky
- JS3 Requirements, or what lies beyond JS2/ES4.
Benchmarks
Coding Style Guidelines
- SpiderMonkey C++ guidelines
- SpiderMonkey older C guidelines
- How to write unit tests for use by jsDriver.pl.
References
- "Garbage Collection: algorithms for automatic dynamic memory management", by Richard Jones, is a comprehensive reference book about different garbage collection algorithms.
- Also Richard Jones's webpage has a collection of references.
- Several conferences where most memory management papers go: ISMM, PLDI, OOPSLA, VEE.