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by mistercow 5003 days ago
>there is no TraceMonkey/JagerMonkey/IonMonkey

The latest date I can pin down for the beginning of the JS arms race was Safari's JavaScriptCore in March 2008, followed by SquirrelFish in June. V8 has had a huge impact in driving innovation and setting the pace of the race, but it did not fire the starter pistol.