Tamarin (JavaScript engine)
| Developed by | Adobe Labs and Mozilla |
|---|---|
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Type | Virtual Machine for ECMAScript |
| License | Tri-licensed GPL, LGPL, and MPL |
| Website | http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ |
Tamarin is a free virtual machine and just-in-time (JIT) compiler intended to implement the fourth edition of the ECMAScript standard.
Tamarin was initially developed by Adobe Labs for its ActionScript virtual machine used in Flash 9 and up. The code was donated to the Mozilla project on November 7, 2006.[1] The contributed code is tri-licensed under the GPL, LGPL, and MPL licenses, and will continue to be developed in Mozilla's Mercurial repository, along with the rest of the Mozilla source code.[2]
The contributed code is approximately 135,000 lines of code,[3] making it the largest single donation of code to the Mozilla project besides Netscape itself.[4]
There were plans to use Tamarin as part of Mozilla 2[5] (and therefore Firefox 4). The project to integrate Tamarin and SpiderMonkey was called "ActionMonkey"[6], but was canceled in 2008.[7] Tamarin will continue to be used in future versions of Adobe Flash Player.
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What Tamarin is not
Adobe contributed code for its virtual machine and the JIT compiler. The JavaScript compiler (the program generating bytecode from JavaScript source code) was not contributed as part of Tamarin; the source to Adobe's compiler is, however, available as part of the open source Adobe Flex software development kit. The contributed code will be integrated with SpiderMonkey to produce a complete JavaScript engine.
Tamarin is not the same as Adobe's Flash Player, which remains closed source. The virtual machine is only a part of Flash Player, and will be a part of future versions of Mozilla Firefox.
Naming
Both SpiderMonkey and Tamarin fulfill closely related goals and so were both dubbed after monkeys (the spider monkey and the tamarin, respectively).
Related projects
Two projects related to Tamarin were announced on July 25, 2007 in Brendan Eich's keynote at The Ajax Experience West: IronMonkey and ScreamingMonkey.[8][9]
IronMonkey is a project to map IronPython and IronRuby to Tamarin led by Seo Sanghyeon.[10]
ScreamingMonkey's goal is to allow Tamarin to run within non-Mozilla browsers (thus allowing them to understand JavaScript 2), starting with Internet Explorer. The project is led by Mark Hammond.[11]
References
- ^ "Adobe and Mozilla Foundation to Open Source Flash Player Scripting Engine". mozilla.com press release.
- ^ "Project Tamarin". mozilla.org project page.
- ^ Mike Melanson. "Open Up". Penguin.SWF.
- ^ "Project Tamarin - Adobe's contribution to Mozilla". The Browser Den.
- ^ Brendan Eich. "Mozilla 2". Brendan's Roadmap Updates.
- ^ John Resig. "ActionMonkey".
- ^ "JavaScript:ActionMonkey". wiki.mozilla.org.
- ^ Brendan Eich. "New Projects". Brendan's Roadmap Updates.
- ^ John Resig. "The Browser Scripting Revolution".
- ^ "Tamarin:IronMonkey". wiki.mozilla.org.
- ^ "Tamarin:ScreamingMonkey". wiki.mozilla.org.
External links
- Project page
- Tamarin documentation at developer.mozilla.org
- "Project Tamarin" - blog post by Brendan Eich, Mozilla CTO.
- "Adobe, Mozilla, and Tamarin" - blog post by Frank Hecker, Mozilla Foundation executive director.
- "A Quick Introduction to Tamarin Tracing" - blog post by Chris Double, Mozilla developer
- "Implementing Native Methods in Tamarin Tracing" - blog post by Chris Double
- "Extending Tamarin Tracing with Forth" - blog post by Chris Double
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