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How JavaScript Objects are Implemented
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Summary
Eddy Bruel details how objects are implemented internally in SpiderMonkey as shape trees and slot vectors. This is done in order to minimize the memory footprint and obtain better JIT optimization with inline caching.
Bio
Eddy Bruel (@ejpbruel) is a platform hacker for Mozilla aspiring to be one day as great as the people he gets to work with.
About the conference
mloc.js 2014 is a conference for people interested in the future of the language and the platform, the possibilites of JavaScript on the web and on the server side. For people doing or planning to do big JavaScript projects. And for people would like to see how is it possible to improve JavaScript by making it smarter, faster and sexy.
Jun 07, 2014