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amaranth on Sept 20, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: RuJIT – Trace-based JIT Compiler for Ruby

Doesn't Firefox use IonMonkey for general method JITing and TraceMonkey for hotspots?

simonster on Sept 20, 2014 [–]

No. Firefox has an interpreter, a baseline method JIT ("Baseline"), and an optimizing method JIT (IonMonkey). TraceMonkey was removed several years ago after JaegerMonkey got type inference (see http://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/category/tracemonkey/).

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