Live briefing
Everything about SpiderMonkey
JavaScript and WebAssembly engine
SpiderMonkey is an open-source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine by the Mozilla Foundation. The engine powers the Firefox web browser and has used multiple generations of JavaScript just-in-time (JIT) compilers, including TraceMonkey, JägerMonkey, IonMonkey, and the current WarpMonkey. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: SpiderMonkeyA 5-minute orientation
- Read the landmark paper: Spidermonkey: rapid detection of co-evolving sites using Bayesian graphical modelsCited 75 times
- Go sideways: Tamarin (software)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: List of JavaScript enginesA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
📚 Books worth reading
Open Library didn't respond; try again in a moment.
🔗 Related topics
- Tamarin (software) Tamarin is a discontinued free software virtual machine with just-in-time compilation (JIT) support intended to implement the 4th edition of the ECMAScript…
- List of JavaScript engines The first JavaScript engines were interpreters of the source code, but modern engines use just-in-time compilation to improve performance. JavaScript engines…
- Brendan Eich Brendan Eich (/ˈaɪk/ EYEK; born July 4, 1961) is an American computer programmer and technology executive. He created the JavaScript programming language…
- River Trail (JavaScript engine) River Trail (also known as Parallel JavaScript) is a software engine, specifically a JavaScript engine, designed by Intel for executing JavaScript code…
- Asm.js asm.js is a subset of JavaScript designed to allow computer software written in languages such as C to be run as web applications while maintaining performance…
- NPAPI Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) is a deprecated application programming interface (API) for web browser plugins, initially developed…
- Chakra (JScript engine) Chakra is a JScript engine used in the Internet Explorer web browser, both developed by Microsoft as proprietary software. Microsoft later developed a…
- ECMAScript for XML ECMAScript for XML (E4X) was an extension to ECMAScript (which includes ActionScript, JavaScript, and JScript) to add native support for Extensible Markup…