Description:

In order to make their programs fast, developers need to understand how the system compiles, optimizes, and runs programs. This talk by David Mandelin will help JavaScript developers make their programs fast by popping the hood on modern JavaScript engines such as SpiderMonkey, V8, JSC, and Chakra and explaining how they work.

About David Mandelin

David Mandelin is a software engineer at Mozilla, where he spends his time making JavaScript run correctly and fast in Firefox. Previously, he has done work on static analysis, miscellaneous programming language research, business web application development, and random programming.