Ajaxian has an interview with Brendan Eich, Mozilla CTP; Kevin Lynch Adobe Chief Software Architect; Alex Russell founderof Dojo, about the status of Tamarin, the code name project for Mozilla’s new JavaScript virtual machine, based on code donated by Adobe last year. It is expected to be included with Mozilla 2.0 (the platform), in 2008, more likely to be seen first in Firefox 4.

As more and more web applications come to rely on Ajax (largely based on JavaScript) capabilities and performance become more relevant for developers and users as well. Kevin Lynch mentions in the podcast that after 3 years of development, Adobe experienced a 10 times performance increase in Flash. A very promising goal for Firefox and all Mozilla based products in general, as JavaScript is not only used when rendering web pages but the user interface itself is manipulated with JavaScript.

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