JavaScript:Home Page

The primary project page for SpiderMonkey has moved to JavaScript.

Tracked Projects

Projects here have a project plan with milestones, tasks, and owners.

Generational Garbage Collection: General Garbage Collection project plan and milestone.
OdinMonkey: OdinMonkey project plan and milestone.
Property Element Storage: Property and Element Storage project plan and milestone.
Debugging: Debugging JavaScript, in web content (both desktop and mobile) and in chrome (add-ons and Firefox itself)
Stack Snapshots: Lightweight records of where errors occurred, where event handlers were registered, and so on.
Heap Profiling: Integrated tools for tracking memory use, finding leaks, and so on.
Start-up Cache: Improve start-up time JavaScript for Gaia applications.
Web Browser Grand Prix: Optimize for Tom's Hardware Guide's "Web Browser Grand Prix" (WBGP) benchmarks.

Exact Stack Rooting: Conservative rooting has a number of well known downsides.
Type Inference: perform hybrid dynamic/static analysis of JavaScript code to provide better type/invariant information to the JIT compiler
Baseline Compiler: New Baseline JIT to replace Interpreter+JM.
IonMonkey: upgrade current JIT compiler with classic SSA-based compiler techniques to allow better optimization of JIT code
JS engine modularization: incremental long-term project to modularize JS engine source code.

ECMAScript language specifications
"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.
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