Carakan, intended to be world's fastest JavaScript engine, will be released in as-yet-undetermined version of the Opera browser Opera is working on a JavaScript engine, called Carakan, which is ...

The Opera web browser could soon get a script execution performance boost from a new JavaScript engine that supports native code generation. The new engine, which is called Carakan, was unveiled ...

Version 5.1 of Google’s open source V8 JavaScript engine accommodates the WebAssembly portable code format and improves standards support, performance, and garbage collection. V8 has served as a ...

Short builtins is a mechanism by which the V8 engine optimizes the location in memory of generated code. When V8 generates CPU-specific code from JavaScript, it lays that code out in memory.

While the race to make the fastest browser JavaScript engine continues at a heated pace, Microsoft senior product manager Pete LePage reminded the audience at Microsoft TechEd, held in New Orleans ...

Eich also praises Chrome. He says that the V8 JavaScript engine is "very-well engineered" and he describes the multiprocess design as "righteous".

Mozilla’s JavaScript team is on a mission to renovate the JavaScript engine for the upcoming major release of Firefox. When version 3.5 landed with major JS performance upgrades including the ...

After reaching a React Native performance impasse while building internal apps, Facebook engineers identified the JavaScript engine as a primary bottleneck, so they created and open sourced their own ...

As the beta release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 looms large, speedy new additions to Firefox 4 promise stiff competition.

Following Microsoft announcing it would open-source its Chakra JavaScript engine late last year, the company has done exactly that, uploading it to GitHub today. ChakraCore is a self-contained ...