Google's V8 engine for running JavaScript programs in Chrome is getting steadily more complex, a big problem for speeding up code, Google's Lars Bak said at Google I/O. Stephen Shankland/CNET ...

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 ...

Eligible browser JavaScript engines include JavaScriptCore (Safari), V8 (Chrome, Edge), and Spidermonkey (Firefox), but security researchers can pitch other engines in their submitted proposals.

The performance of JavaScript has come on leaps and bounds in recent years, thanks to browser JavaScript engines using just-in-time compilers, which typically compile certain stretches of ...

Three jurisdictions now want browser engine variety for a better mobile market Apple now faces challenges to its WebKit ...

That is where the Javascript JIT or Just-in-Time compiler comes in, which is now a standard feature in almost all Javascript engines used by web browsers, including Chromium's V8 engine.

Browser developers like to crow about the performance of their JavaScript engines, and the likes of Microsoft and Google won't want to let Apple take the lead in this field.