before pointing to the performance improvements of the latest JavaScript interpreters from Mozilla and Safari. [ Readreviews and view brief QuickTime tours of seven open source Ajax toolkits ...

All the challengers tout JavaScript performance as a major part of their competitive attack--even to the point of naming their JavaScript engines built into their browsers: Chrome's V8 ...

In Firefox 3.5, Mozilla introduced a new high-performance JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey that uses just-in-time compilation and an optimization technique called tracing to deliver faster ...

One of the most impressive features in Google's open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark.

If you're less technically minded, however, here's a basic description of type inference and why it will speed up Firefox's JavaScript performance by such a large margin. In every programming ...

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 ...

“Performance is really a multipart system. It is not something that if you just have a really fast JavaScript engine, then your browser will be fast. Not always will performance be dependent on ...

On the Sunspider JavaScript performance test, despite all the performance improvements Microsoft says it's making, IE8 finished last by roughly 3,000ms. Â It was narrowly bested by Opera 10 alpha ...

While an analyst at Ovum is mostly applauding the technology, the founder of JavaScript presentation engine maker Famous is skeptical. With WebAssembly, technologists from Mozilla, Microsoft ...

Apple is apparently working on significant improvements to JavaScript performance for its Safari browser, as shown by the inclusion of accelerator upgrades in recent builds of WebKit, reports ...