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 ...

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 ...

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 .

Sparkplug is the new JavaScript compiler that fills the gap between low latency and high performance. According to the tech giant, this saves 17 years of users' time every day.

If you were drawn to Chrome because of its superior JavaScript performance, or to Internet Explorer because of its neat separate-process Chakra JavaScript engine, OdinMonkey -- which can boost ...

After reaching a React Native performance impasse while building internal apps, Facebook engineers identified the JavaScript engine as a primary bottleneck, so they created and open sourced their own ...

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 ...

Although Chrome's performance beats the current stable version of Firefox, benchmarks show that Mozilla's next-generation JavaScript engine actually outperforms V8.

Beyond JavaScript: A new hope for a high-performance Web. news analysis. ... The technology makes use of LLVM to compile source code (currently C/C++), so it will run on JavaScript engines, ...