Shoutbox

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Originally posted by SonicSam
For those mildly retarded (like myself)...what can this accomplish. I mean like what can we do with this JavaScript addition that we can't do in normal JavaScript

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Instead of interpreting the code and executing the appropriate actions the javascript code is compiled just in time to be executed natively on your processor, so this means it's MUCH faster. And that's not all Tracemonkey can do, but for the full explanation read the document describing Trace Trees