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New features in WebKit trunk
Konstantin Tokarev edited this page May 30, 2016
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- New memory allocator bmalloc is now used instead of tcmalloc
- Fetch API
- Nearly complete ES6 support (https://webkit.org/blog/4054/es6-in-webkit/), including proper tail calls
- JavaScript now uses C stack
- FTL/B3 - new JIT tier providing more aggressive optimizations than DFG JIT (currenly available only for x86_64)
- More optimizations for ASM.js code
- WebAssembly support is in development
- Various performance improvements
- Improved Inspector and other tooling
- JIT for CSS selectors (https://webkit.org/blog/3271/webkit-css-selector-jit-compiler/)
- Various new web standards are now supported in GStreamer MediaPlayer implementation: MediaSource, MediaStream (WebRTC), WebAudio, element.
- Content Blocking API (https://webkit.org/blog/3476/content-blockers-first-look/)