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<blockquote>This is the coder's badge of glory, That he protect and tend his monkey, Code with honor, as is due, And through the bits to God is true. --damons, IRC </blockquote>
JaegerMonkey (or JägerMonkey) is a new '''method JIT''' for SpiderMonkey. The goal is to get reliable baseline performance on the order of other JS JIT systems. JM will be a baseline whole-method JIT that doesn't necessarily do many traditional compiler optimizations. Instead, it does dynamic-language-JIT-oriented optimizations like PICs and specialization of constant operands.<br>