JavaScript:Hackers

This is a non-exhaustive list of people who regularly hack on SpiderMonkey: TraceMonkey, JägerMonkey, and all projects (named and unnamed) and technical areas beneath it.

If you regularly work on the JavaScript engine, feel free to add yourself to the list below, and to make corrections and updates to it as needed.

Regular JavaScript engine hackers

These people regularly hack on the JavaScript engine. If you're looking for someone who knows a particular concept well, to ask questions about it, clarify concepts, &c., this is a good place to look. (And if you hack regularly on the JavaScript engine, feel free to add yourself and mention whatever areas you're comfortable in.)

(NB: Email addresses aren't listed for spam-prevention purposes. To find out an email address, type the listed Bugzilla identifier in the CC box on bmo and look at the autocompletion.)

Name	Bugzilla ID	Areas of expertise
Andreas Gal	:gal	Proxies, wrappers, GC
Bill McCloskey	billm@moz	Tracejit-versus-methodjit heuristics code, GC
Blake Kaplan	:mrbkap	Proxies and wrappers, the interpreter, using the JSAPI
Brendan Eich	:brendan	JSAPI, shapes
Chris Leary	:cdleary	Inline caches, regular expressions, yarr, parser, scanner, ARM
Dave Herman	dherman@moz	Reflection API
David Anderson	:dvander	Trace trees, tracer transitions, method JIT
David Mandelin	dmandelin@moz	Method JIT, name lookup
Gregor Wagner	anygregor@gm	GC
Igor Bukanov	igor@mir2	GC
Jacob Bramley	:jbramley	ARM
Jan de Mooij	jandem
Jason Orendorff	jorendorff@moz	being on IRC (just ask)
Jeff Walden	jwalden+bmo	JSON, ES5 spec, strict mode, arguments objects, typed arrays, some familiarity with JavaScript stack/frame layout/etc. (but prefer Luke)
Jim Blandy	:jimb	Debugger support, front end, strict mode, build system
Luke Wagner	:luke	Stack, values, containers, method/trace jit, generators, C++ language lawyer
Mike Shaver	:shaver
Nick Nethercote	:njn	Tracer, nanojit, parser, scanner
Paul Biggar	pbiggar@mozilla.com	JSON (prefer Waldo), build system, testing, memory allocation
Steve Fink	:sfink	JSD, profiling, probes
Tom Schuster	evilpie

Hackers emeriti

These people once regularly hacked on the JavaScript engine but don't do so regularly any more. Reviewers listed here may or may not be willing to review patches. If they aren't, they'll say so when review is requested of them and perhaps forward it to a better person.

Name	Bugzilla ID	Areas of expertise
Brian Crowder	crowderbt@
Graydon Hoare	graydon@moz
Rob Sayre	sayrer@gm	JSON