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 ...

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 ...

September 2018’s V8 Version 6.9 focuses on memory and performance improvements for Google’s JavaScript engine. For memory savings, Version 6.9 offers embedded built-ins for x64-based computers.

To execute JavaScript, Google’s open source V8 engine begins by compiling to machine code with a quick compiler that doesn’t perform any optimization on the code it produces.

For end users, this means a faster experience on the web. Google's V8 JavaScript engine, which arrived in 2008, was an important shift in competition between browser makers.

The WebKit team has announced its next-generation JavaScript engine, called SquirrelFish Extreme, before the previous SquirrelFish even made it into a shipping product. In the last three months ...