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SpiderMonkey is the first JavaScript engine, written by Brendan Eich at Netscape Communications, later released as open source and currently maintained by the Mozilla Foundation. It is still used in the Firefox web browser.

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References

  1. Eich, Brendan (21 June 2011). "New JavaScript Engine Module Owner". BrendanEich.com. http://brendaneich.com/2011/06/new-javascript-engine-module-owner/. 
  2. Eich, Brendan (3 April 2008). "Popularity". BrendanEich.com. http://brendaneich.com/2008/04/popularity/. 
  3. Eich, Brendan (19 August 2011). "Mapping the Monkeysphere". http://blog.cdleary.com/2011/06/mapping-the-monkeysphere/#comment-222163115. 
  4. "New in JavaScript 1.6". https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/New_in_JavaScript/1.6. 
  5. "759422 – Remove use of e4x in account creation". https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759422#c0. 
  6. "JavaScript:TraceMonkey, MozillaWiki". https://wiki.mozilla.org/JavaScript:TraceMonkey. 
  7. "TraceMonkey: JavaScript Lightspeed, Brendan Eich's Blog". https://brendaneich.com/2008/08/tracemonkey-javascript-lightspeed/. 
  8. Paul, Ryan (22 August 2008). "Firefox to get massive JavaScript performance boost". Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080822-firefox-to-get-massive-javascript-performance-boost.html. 
  9. Nethercote, Nicholas (1 November 2011). "SpiderMonkey is on a diet | Nicholas Nethercote". Blog.mozilla.com. http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/11/01/spidermonkey-is-on-a-diet/. 
  10. "JaegerMonkey – Fast JavaScript, Always! » Mystery Bail Theater". Bailopan.net. 26 February 2010. http://www.bailopan.net/blog/?p=683. 
  11. Paul, Ryan (9 March 2010). "Mozilla borrows from WebKit to build fast new JS engine". Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/03/mozilla-borrows-from-webkit-to-build-fast-new-js-engine.ars. 
  12. "JaegerMonkey - MozillaWiki". Wiki.mozilla.org. https://wiki.mozilla.org/JaegerMonkey. 
  13. "Platform/Features/IonMonkey - MozillaWiki". Wiki.mozilla.org. 11 February 2013. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Features/IonMonkey. 
  14. "IonMonkey: Mozilla’s new JavaScript JIT compiler". Infoq.com. http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/05/ionmonkey. 
  15. "Firefox Notes - Desktop". Mozilla.org. 8 January 2013. https://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_releasenotes/en-US/firefox/18.0/releasenotes/. 
  16. "Warp: Improved JS performance in Firefox 83 – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog" (in en-US). 13 November 2020. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/11/warp-improved-js-performance-in-firefox-83. 
  17. "SpiderMonkey — Firefox Source Docs documentation". https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/js/index.html. 
  18. "JavaScript Changes in MongoDB 3.2 — MongoDB Manual 3.4". https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/release-notes/3.2-javascript. 
  19. "The Release Riak 0.8 and JavaScript Map/Reduce". http://basho.com/blog/technical/2010/02/03/the-release-riak-0.8-and-javascript-mapreduce/. 
  20. "Acrobat DC SDK Documentation". https://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/acrobat_dc_sdk/2015/HTMLHelp/#t=Acro12_MasterBook/JS_API_AcroJSChanges/Acrobat_DC_changes.htm. "Core JavaScript engine has migrated to version 24.2 of SpiderMonkey (the underlying JavaScript engine from Mozilla)." 
  21. Bolso, Erik Inge (8 March 2005). "2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup". Linux Journal. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8148?page=0,1. 
  22. wine-cvs mailing list , 16 September 2008: "jscript: Added regular expression compiler based on Mozilla regexp implementation" http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-cvs/2008-September/047548.html
  23. "SpiderMonkey > FOSS" (in en). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/SpiderMonkey/FOSS. 
  24. "Introduction to the JavaScript shell". MDN. Mozilla Developer Network. 29 September 2010. https://developer.mozilla.org/En/SpiderMonkey/Introduction_to_the_JavaScript_shell. "The JavaScript shell is a command-line program included in the SpiderMonkey source distribution. [...] You can use it as an interactive shell [...] You can also pass in, on the command line, a JavaScript program file to run [...]" 
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