As a result, Google says JavaScript applications remain responsive and performance gets a boost. This is all handled by V8, Chrome’s JavaScript engine. Here’s how it works.

According to Google engineers, Chrome 57 will temporarily delay a background tab's JavaScript timers if that tab is using more than 1% of a CPU core.

A throttling system for JavaScript background code is already included in Chrome since version 57, released in March 2017. Back then, Google decided to limit a background tab's JavaScript "timer ...

Chrome converts the JavaScript code for pages and apps into a faster native code during optimization. In the past, that optimization on Chrome was done by pausing the execution of the code while ...

Google's Chrome browser is touted to get a performance boost as engineers optimise the latest Beta version 33 with a new feature dubbed 'concurrent compilation'. The announcement promises faster ...