That Stupid Club

Very excit­ing, Adobe open sourced their Action­Script Vir­tual Machine, a “high per­for­mance” VM fea­tur­ing a Just-In-Time (JIT) com­piler. They have also con­tributed it to Mozilla which cre­ated the Tamarin Project will even­tu­ally be inte­grated to the core Javascript engine.

The good news for devel­op­ers is that they are tar­get­ing ECMAScript 4 (which means Javascript 2), but users should see ben­e­fit as well from the expected per­for­mance increase. Javascript heavy pages should really fly due to the pres­ence of the JIT compiler.