Name: David Mandelin - Know Your Engines: How to Make Your JavaScript Fast
Start: 2011-11-15T18:30:00-08:00
End: 2011-11-15T21:30:00-08:00
Location: Linkedin Corporation

Bio

Dave Mandelin is manager of the JavaScript team at Mozilla and is also the module owner of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine. Previously, he was an engineer at Mozilla, working mainly on program analysis and then JavaScript performance. He led the JägerMonkey project, which was the new JavaScript JIT for Firefox 4. He has past experience in programming languages research and web development.

Overview

In order to make their programs fast, developers need to understand how the system compiles, optimizes, and runs programs. This talk 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.

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Presentation starts at 7pm but be sure to join us for hors d'oeuvres at 6.30pm. As usual we will have signage out for those who have not been to the LinkedIn campus. Parking is plentiful.

Streaming on ustream (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/linkedin-techtalks).

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