... which is a shame, because I quite liked Facebook Lite.
But I do have some new news to report: I just pulled the switch on the new JavaScript interpreter in my internal build. There are still some glitches, but the SunSpider benchmark dropped from 31 seconds on the 1.8GHz build MDD to 16 seconds -- half the execution time! Also, eBay now works right. I'm ironically enough having some trouble with unresponsiveness in Facebook -- this might not be JavaScript but could be weirdness with XMLHTTPRequest, so I have to go through that code as well. But even as it is now, Facebook actually works, somewhat. And remember that Mozilla uses JavaScript as glue code just about in everything, so the whole browser is faster.
Btw, this improvement is "only" with SpiderMonkey, the pure C implementation. I'm not sure if I can wring TraceMonkey into Classilla, but if I can, hold onto your hats -- performance could shoot up another full level with that. There is a PPC nanojit but I'm a little leery on whether CodeWarrior can digest it.
Also, this is a major internals change and I bet there will be regressions I haven't noticed yet. But 9.2 is on the horizon!
But I do have some new news to report: I just pulled the switch on the new JavaScript interpreter in my internal build. There are still some glitches, but the SunSpider benchmark dropped from 31 seconds on the 1.8GHz build MDD to 16 seconds -- half the execution time! Also, eBay now works right. I'm ironically enough having some trouble with unresponsiveness in Facebook -- this might not be JavaScript but could be weirdness with XMLHTTPRequest, so I have to go through that code as well. But even as it is now, Facebook actually works, somewhat. And remember that Mozilla uses JavaScript as glue code just about in everything, so the whole browser is faster.
Btw, this improvement is "only" with SpiderMonkey, the pure C implementation. I'm not sure if I can wring TraceMonkey into Classilla, but if I can, hold onto your hats -- performance could shoot up another full level with that. There is a PPC nanojit but I'm a little leery on whether CodeWarrior can digest it.
Also, this is a major internals change and I bet there will be regressions I haven't noticed yet. But 9.2 is on the horizon!