With Chakra (the code name for the IE9 Javascript engine) we enabled native code generation. Inside Internet Explorer 9, we take the Javascript, and we compile that using background processing on ...

Ormandy argues that once the Avast antivirus would download and run the malicious JavaScript code inside its own custom engine, malicious operations could be executed on the user's computer ...

the game engine that runs fan favorites like Mass Effect, Gears of War, and Infinity Blade, has been ported to run inside a web browser without any plug-ins. Using JavaScript, specifically the asm ...

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.

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 ...

In its current state, the new JavaScript engine vastly out-performs IE8, as you can see in the graph below. It's lagging behind Chrome, Safari and Opera 10.5 at the moment, but besting Firefox 3 ...

The technology is planned for 2013's Java SE 8 and offers a big performance boost over the present Rhino engine Oracle’s Project Nashorn is focused on developing a JavaScript engine for the ...

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 ...

In JavaScript engines, latency usually comes from two computationally-intensive sources: compiling code to machine instructions so it can run faster, and garbage collecting memory that is no ...

The security flaw, which was first discovered by Google's Tavis Ormandy, was found in the company's JavaScript engine. This internal component of Avast antivirus allows for JavaScript code to be ...