Chrome has over two billion users, so when zero-day exploits strike Chrome, it's a big deal. V8, an open source Google project, is a powerful JavaScript engine for Chrome that's helped advance the ...

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. Although ...

And this is where the V8 smarts of Google Chrome come in. While compiling the code, V8 will create in the background a compiled class (just like you have in C++ at run-time) that contains no members.

The little technical information Google did share includes the detail that CVE-2021-21148 affects Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. V8 is responsible for translating web pages’ JavaScript code ...

September 2018’s V8 Version 6.9 focuses on memory and performance improvements for Google’s JavaScript engine. For memory savings, Version 6.9 offers embedded built-ins for x64-based computers.

This latest incident marks the fourth actively exploited zero-day vulnerability fixed in Chrome this year. It follows three ...

Google’s V8 developers noted that, since 2016, they have moved away from tracking synthetic benchmarks, such as Octane, to measuring real-world performance of JavaScript outside of the ...

Google has released a new Chrome beta that includes a theming engine, ... the search giant opted to build its own high-performance JavaScript virtual machine called V8. Google contends that the ...

The V8 engine has multiple compilers which can make different tradeoffs throughout the various phases of executing JavaScript. Three years ago, we launched a new two-tier compiler system ...

Instead, users might notice that Chrome is performing a little better, particularly on pages that make heavy use of JavaScript. That’s because the V8 JavaScript engine that Chrome and some other ...