Mozilla this week is touting <A HREF="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/22/Mozilla-boosts-JavaScript-performance_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/22/Mozilla-boosts-JavaScript-performance_1.html">technology to boost performance of its JavaScript engine</A> and Web applications. Called TraceMonkey, the technology adds native code compilation to the engine, which itself is called SpiderMonkey, said Mike Shaver, Mozilla vice president of engineering, in a blog post on Friday. The software builds on code and ideas shared with the Tamarin Tracing project, Shaver said.

TraceMonkey was placed in the Firefox 3.1 development tree this week. It is slated to be featured in Firefox 3.1, which is due to be available the end of this year.