22. August 2009
    YOUNGTIMER & OLDTIMER Treffen Wien
    für Automobile und Motorräder

Flower POWER Classic Rallye
70er SoulSugar Disco-Sound

The Cold War computing race from the Russian side, including the development of the MESM -- for 'Small Electronic Counting Machine' -- powered by more than 6000 vacuum tubes.

Firefox 3.5 has a new JavaScript engine, TraceMonkey, that runs many JavaScript programs 3-4x faster than Firefox 3, speeding up existing web apps and enabling new ones. This article gives a peek under the hood at the major parts of TraceMonkey and how they speed up JS. This will also explain what kinds of programs get the best speedup from TraceMonkey and what kinds of things you can do to get your program to run faster.

o I peeked into the Jar source code (after many years), and it turned out we had a very embarassing bug in the jar code: We were doing a O(n) look-up on a Hashtable (via the contains() method) for each and every file we were jarring, where it really should be a O(1) look-up operation with a HashSet.

Still interested? You can explore a 360 degrees rendering of the bridge on the OOOii website, admire the original concept art from James Clyne, or watch an interesting interview with the creators.