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On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Mark Hamburg wrote:
> On Aug 10, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
> >
> > What tracing JITs are there other than TraceMonkey and LuaJIT2?
>
> TraceMonkey is the poster child for tracing JITs at this point, I think, and
> V8 is generally reported to be faster. I don't know what the status is on
> Tamarind Tracing.

Oh yes, I forgot about Tamarin which (IIRC) was an ancestor of
TraceMonkey developed by Adobe for ActionScript.

AFAIK V8 isn't a trace JIT: it has a Self-style backend.

Tony.
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