To improve parsing speed, V8 Version 7.2 includes what Google calls the engine’s fastest-ever JavaScript parser, resulting in quicker page loading and more-responsive pages.

V8, the JavaScript engine featured in Google’s Chrome browser, is getting improvements in performance and code optimization courtesy of both the V8 team and the Russia Academy of Sciences. For ...

One of the most impressive features in Google's open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark. Although ...

Ford's modular V8 engine is omnipresent within its ranks and has been for years. Here are the most powerful models to ever used the modular V8 enigne.

Now, however, it looks like upcoming versions of the software could be even speedier thanks to new technology in its V8 JavaScript engine.

Chevrolet is bringing back the ZR1 next year, and the automaker has just announced details about the new LT7 Twin-turgo V8 engine that will power it.

FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem has said the V8 engine proposal is “the right way” to go for Formula 1, as he offered a ...

Chrome's V8 engine underwent significant architectural changes in 2024, increasing both its complexity and the technical barrier to vulnerability research.

Paving the way for more server-side use of JavaScript, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider Engine Yard has added the Node.js library to its collection of hosted Web application tools. The ...

JavaScript is now the world's most popular programming language, even though it started off as a side-kick to Java.