Version 5.1 of Google’s open source V8 JavaScript engine accommodates the WebAssembly portable code format and improves standards support, performance, and garbage collection. V8 has served as a ...

The new Nitro JavaScript engine is more than four times faster than the JavaScript ... For end users, Safari 4 adds history searches, allowing users to search titles, URLs, and the text of pages ...

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

Opera announced its answer to the JavaScript engine race Monday. The JavaScript engine is in its early stages, but promises to improve JavaScript processing performance in the Opera browser ...

Google's V8 JavaScript engine for Chrome was a key turning point for web applications in the history of browsers, Microsoft's creator of TypeScript (a superset of JavaScript) acknowledged in an ...

Octane was developed for and by the developers of V8, the JavaScript engine used in Chrome. It was intended to address flaws in the earlier SunSpider benchmark, developed by Apple's Safari team.

Currently, modules must be recompiled to work with new versions of Node.js and the JavaScript engine, which traditionally has been Google’s V8 engine. But N-API is about to make things easier by ...