The WebKit team has been busy. Publicly announcing a brand new JavaScript engine release, amusingly named SquirrelFish Extreme (nicknamed SFX), they're already boasting performance gains twice as ...

Microsoft officially retired JScript years ago, along with proper support for the original Internet Explorer browser. However ...

The first information about the next version of Microsoft's Web browser was revealed at PDC on Wednesday. The announcement described three main areas of improvement: JavaScript, Web standards, and ...

Not always will performance be dependent on the JavaScript engine,” he said. LePage’s presentation focused on the latest developer edition of Internet Explorer 9 .

There’s a performance arms race going on among the various JavaScript engines in your favorite web browsers. The latest to leap ahead is SquirrelFish Extreme, a new version of the JavaScript ...

In the case of Firefox 9, the type inference engine seems to produce up to 30% faster JavaScript execution. It varies from benchmark to benchmark, but the performance improvement is unmistakable.

The interminable JavaScript engine performance wars are continuing, with Microsoft landing the latest blow. Striking this time was Limin Zhu, program manager for the Chakra JavaScript engine that ...

Mozilla this week is touting technology to boost performance of its JavaScript engine and Web applications. Called TraceMonkey, the technology adds native code compilation to the engine, ...

Nashorn, the JavaScript engine for Java Virtual Machine, could be deprecated, having been made obsolete by newer technologies. Nashorn debuted in Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 in 2014.