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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 '''inline threading''' for SpiderMonkey. The goal is to get reliable baseline performance on the order of other JS JIT systems. "Inline threading" really just means 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>
+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>
 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536277 Bug 536277] is the meta bug for this project.