On Aug 22, 4:47 ¨Âí¬ Êïèî Ìïîç ¼èéëåå®®®Àçíáéì®ãïí¾ ÷òïôåº > I just saw a recent article on ArsTechnica > (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080822-firefox-to-get-massive-...) > which discussed using trace optimization (http://andreasgal.com/) to > boost the performance of JavaScript. > > My initial reaction was that this seems like it would also work very > well for ruby. That was my reaction too. It makes me wonder what kind of optimizations are in Maglev. I found a better article this morning giving more details on how trace optmization works: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2008/08/tracemonkey_javascript_lightsp.html -Qaexl