Previously, Chrome compiled JavaScript on the main thread ... compilation (V8 still optimizes the large piece of code, but does so in a background thread): The graphs above show excerpts of ...

The JavaScript code is converted into a faster native code ... In the latest Beta, the optimising compilation phase will take place in the background thread without pausing execution of the ...

A security researcher has shed light on how invisible characters can be snuck into JavaScript code to introduce security risks, like backdoors, into your software. Not everything is what it seems ...