A new JavaScript API aims to facilitate limited local filesystem access in Web applications. A draft that documents the new API, authored by Mozilla's Arun Ranganathan, has been submitted to the ...

For some time Microsoft didn't offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop ...

Opera announced its answer to the JavaScript engine race Monday. The JavaScript engine is in its early stages, but promises to improve JavaScript processing performance in the Opera browser ...

Based on the conference and online discussions, we worked to document the project, its organizational and governance structures, and the various ways to contribute. Through these documents, we ...

The temporary fix disables a new Javascript processing feature in Firefox 3.5, which Security Fix says will slow down Javascript handling but protect against this exploit.

Looking to speed up JavaScript applications, Intel is leading efforts to enable SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) capabilities in the official specification underlying JavaScript, although ...

In the well-established Office Ready-Fire-Aim tradition, Microsoft adds two new “features” that beg to be abused. Details appeared at Build, and the bad guys already have their keyboards primed.

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

TL;DR: Google is now shipping Chrome 91, which includes a major upgrade to the browser's JavaScript processing. According to Google, the V8 engine used to run about 78 years' worth of JavaScript ...

In JavaScript, on the contrary, the processing speed depended directly on the number of Map tasks. Dependency between performance and the type of a query.