Apple has released a public beta of Safari 4, introducing several new end-user features, along with built in developer tools and a new JavaScript engine called Nitro. The new Nitro JavaScript engine ...

Mozilla's high-performance TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which was first introduced in 2008, has lost a lot of its luster as competing browser vendors have stepped up their game to deliver ...

Apple has released a public beta of Safari 4, introducing several new end-user features, along with built-in developer tools and a new JavaScript engine called Nitro. The new Nitro JavaScript engine ...

Carakan, intended to be world's fastest JavaScript engine, will be released in as-yet-undetermined version of the Opera browser Opera is working on a JavaScript engine, called Carakan, which is ...

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

While the race to make the fastest browser JavaScript engine continues at a heated pace, Microsoft senior product manager Pete LePage reminded the audience at Microsoft TechEd, held in New Orleans ...

Ormandy argues that once the Avast antivirus would download and run the malicious JavaScript code inside its own custom engine, malicious operations could be executed on the user's computer, with ...

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. V8 has served as a ...

Short builtins is a mechanism by which the V8 engine optimizes the location in memory of generated code. When V8 generates CPU-specific code from JavaScript, it lays that code out in memory.

Microsoft has officially open-sourced key components of its Chakra JavaScript engine under the name ChakraCore and published it on GitHub.