22 August 2008 Andreas Gal, Brendan Eich, Dave Anderson, Mike Shaver, and a whole host of other super-smart folks at Mozilla have been working hard to bring a Trace-tree based Just-in-time compiler to Firefox. I was a little curious about what sort of things you could do with this new found speed - so I hacked together a demo of some photo editing operations in the browser. It runs about 7x fast