Eich also praises Chrome. He says that the V8 JavaScript engine is "very-well engineered" and he describes the multiprocess design as "righteous".

For its part, the V8 team has released version 5.4, a new branch of the engine. “V8 5.4 delivers a number of key improvements in memory footprint and startup speed,” the team said in a bulletin.

An important component of delivering a fast browser is fast JavaScript execution. In Chrome, that job is done by the V8 engine which executes over 78 years worth of JavaScript code on a daily basis.

Sparkplug is debuting in Chrome 91. Featured as part of Chrome’s V8 JavaScript/WebAssembly engine, Sparkplug is positioned as a “super-fast” non-optimizing compiler.