The article is currently wrong in that it claims Google Chrome pioneered JIT. In fact, the TraceMonkey JIT for Firefox appeared as a Beta before Chrome was even announced, and became standard in Firefox at about the same time that the Chrome came out of Beta.
The current page is simply wrong. I have tried to correct this with proper references but someone keeps undoing my edits. [[Special:Contributions/72.203.80.253|72.203.80.253]] ([[User talk:72.203.80.253|talk]]) 06:15, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
:Perhaps the V8 team could claim priority here, since they independently developed it for a few years prior to Chrome's release in 2008. There's another problem with your claim of Eich/TraceMonkey being the first to have JIT: In terms of widespread, non-beta deployment Chrome was well ahead of Firefox, which is supported by Mozilla's "Are we fast yet?" website and another reference in the article. (And I personally remember Firefox being noticably slower than Chrome for JS back in those early years of Chrome.)
:Anyhow, I don't think it really matters who gets credited for "the pioneer" of JIT in a JS engine. So I'm reverting back to my edit of yesterday where this point is not even mentioned. (It still has the same Eich blog ref anyways.) -[[User:Pmffl|Pmffl]] ([[User talk:Pmffl|talk]]) 19:56, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
