To improve parsing speed, V8 Version 7.2 includes what Google calls the engine’s fastest-ever JavaScript parser, resulting in quicker page loading and more-responsive pages.

Version 5.1 of Google’s open source V8 JavaScript engine accommodates the WebAssembly portable code format and improves standards support, performance, and garbage collection.

Support has landed for Windows, macOS, and Linux in V8 v7.2. Google creates branch releases of its V8 JavaScript engine every six weeks to coincide with Google Chrome releases.

Google creates branch releases of its V8 JavaScript engine every six weeks to coincide with Google Chrome releases. Version 7.4 of V8 ships with Chrome 74, 7.5 with Chrome 75, and 7.6 with Chrome 76.

Search giant Google in its new Chrome browser has souped up JavaScript, calling it V8. Although Google Chrome's V8 sports neither fuel injection nor dual-overhead cams, it does have full ...

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 ...

Google has shipped a new JavaScript compiler for its V8 JavaScript engine in Chrome called Sparkplug that promises a much faster web experience – and it does it by 'cheating', according to the ...

December 17, 2015 - 2:45 pm Over the years, multiple studies have found that Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine was returning not-so-random numbers when you called the Math.random () function.

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 ...

To execute JavaScript, Google’s open source V8 engine begins by compiling to machine code with a quick compiler that doesn’t perform any optimization on the code it produces. Credit: Google ...