I definitely didn't intend for it to be that way - only so much as that V8 is the result of a long two years of dedicated work by a team of very smart people wh

I definitely didn't intend for it to be that way - only so much as that V8 is the result of a long two years of dedicated work by a team of very smart people who produced an excellent result. Theoretically they reached a point at which they were happy with a solid release. The Mozilla team is only just getting started on building tracing into Firefox. It's not done yet and it's still quite slow (in comparison to what the final result will be). I wasn't trying to say anything silly like "oh wow, they're such slow coders!" more that the equivalent amount of work is only just beginning on the other end. Obviously if you wanted to include all technologies involved in TraceMonkey then you might as well say "TraceMonkey, 10 years in the making" since the vast majority of the code comes from SpiderMonkey which has been around for quite some time.