Developer Chat with the Creator of JavaScript and Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich
Update: Brendan’s special guest at today’s developer chat is Kevin Lynch, chief software architect at Adobe. Brendan and Kevin will be discussing the ActionScript™ Virtual Machine that Adobe has open sourced and contributed to Mozilla under the new project name Tamarin. If you’re interested in the future of Mozilla’s JavaScript implementation, you won’t want to miss this!
This Tuesday, November 7th at 10am PST (UTC-8) Brendan Eich and some very special guests will be hosting a developer chat about exciting new technologies coming to Mozilla 2. If you didn’t read Brendan’s Mozilla 2 roadmap post, here’s an excerpt to whet your whistle for Tuesday’s talk.
For Mozilla 2, we will have a JIT-oriented JavaScript VM (details soon) that supports the forthcoming ECMAScript Edition 4 (”JS2″) language. Among the desirable characteristics of this VM will be a conservative, incremental garbage collector (GC). If it makes sense, we can use this GC module to manage DOM object memory instead of using XPCOM reference counting. We can use its conservative scanning code to assist in cycle collection. And we can insert JIT calls directly into DOM glue code entry points (provided no JS mutation has overridden a method property value), bypassing the powerful but relatively slow typelib-based dispatching machinery of XPConnect.
If that sounds exciting to you, then you won’t want to miss this opportunity to discuss it with Brendan. Join us Tuesday at 10am PST (UTC-8) on the IRC server irc.mozilla.org in the channel #javascript for this exciting event.