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Intro
JavaScript language and implementation plans go here. For background, see:
- JS items in Brendan's roadmap blog.
- The Mozilla JS language page.
- 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.
New Projects
- Tamarin, the new virtual machine for ES4/JS2 that's already in Flash.
- ActionMonkey, the integration of Tamarin and SpiderMonkey for Mozilla 2.
- A new SpiderMonkey API for building and inspecting parse trees.
- Make mostly-dense arrays blazingly fast.
- Expose ECMA 262 Regular Expression API to C/C++ clients.
- JS3 Requirements, or what lies beyond JS2/ES4.
Older Projects/Ideas
- Narcissus (source code).
- Context-thread the SpiderMonkey interpreter.
Coding Style Guidelines
- SpiderMonkey
- 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.