Carakan (pronounced Tsharakan) is now 2.5 times faster than Futhark, the JavaScript engine in the Opera 10 browser. It could be even faster when ready, the company said.

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ECMAScript ...

This shim implements the most essential V8 APIs so that the underlying JavaScript engine change is transparent to Node.js and other native add-on modules written for V8,” Seth said.

Vulnerability in the JavaScript engine The Chrome team described the vulnerability as an out of bounds memory read and write in V8, which is Chrome’s JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. The open ...