JavaScript:Home Page

Intro

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• JS items in Brendan's roadmap blog.
• The mozilla.org website's JS language page.
• JS pages at the Mozilla Developer Center.

New Projects

• Narcissus (source code).
• A new SpiderMonkey API for building and inspecting parse trees.
• Context-thread the SpiderMonkey interpreter.
• Make mostly-dense arrays blazingly fast.
• Expose ECMA 262 Regular Expression API to C/C++ clients.
• JS3 Requirements, or what lies beyond JS2/ES4.

Coding Style Guidelines

• SpiderMonkey
• How to write unit tests for use by jsDriver.pl.

References

• "Garbage Collection: algorithms for automatic dynamic memory management", by Richard Jones, is a comprehensive reference book about different garbage collection algorithms.
• Also Richard Jones's webpage has a collection of references.
• Several conferences where most memory management papers go: ISMM, PLDI, OOPSLA, VEE.