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Thanks for the link. I guess my thinking was -- I hear a lot of anecdotal discussion about the FireFox codebase and how it needs to be re-engineered, etc, etc

Thanks for the link. I guess my thinking was -- I hear a lot of anecdotal discussion about the FireFox codebase and how it needs to be re-engineered, etc, etc (ie. WebKit is tidier and so forth). If the performance war is elsewhere, does that remain a factor? i.e. Assuming the above is actually true, does the codebase have legs as the performance war is elsewhere?

jeresig 18y ago
I think that the Firefox codebase is a lot of things. It's been around for a while, for sure. There's cruft - definitely. It's also being actively stripped of its cruft and being actively improved. I think a lot of people are coming to discover just how much 'oompf' the Firefox codebase has. For example, all of these huge JavaScript performance improvements (TraceMonkey) are a layer of additions on top of the existing JavaScript engine (SpiderMonkey). So yeah, there's some really smart people at Mozilla who are making the code base quite fast - just as there are at Apple, Opera, and Google. It's a great time to be a web developers - this performance battle is just awesome on so many levels.