Take TraceMonkey, a newly announced Mozilla-based project that speeds up JavaScript execution dramatically and thus speeds up the Web. Written by Rupert Goodwins, Contributor Aug. 24, 2008 at 7:57 ...

Blocking JavaScript execution results in an immediate boost to a users' security, as none of that code will be able to execute. Also: Russian election hacking hits a bump, but it's still going on CNET ...

For the two news sites, the JavaScript execution took between 20 percent and 35 percent of the workload. In all these cases, JavaScript execution was a big, though not dominant, ...

Mozilla has just rolled out OdinMonkey, a new module for Firefox's JavaScript engine that promises to speed up JavaScript execution beyond your wildest dreams. If you were drawn to Chrome because ...

They aim to improve execution speed so that it is comparable to that of native code. ... the JavaScript interpreter that is used in Firefox 3.

Apple's WebKit team has released a revamped new SunSpider 1.0 benchmark suite for profiling the performance of web browser JavaScript execution, replacing the 0.9 version initially released at the ...

However, other issues appear to affect the performance of full-screen Web apps besides the JavaScript execution speed. One is that HTML5 caching currently doesn't work properly in iOS 4.3.

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.

Javascript execution is surely more serious.” Users could be subject to account hijacking, spam and phishing attacks by simply opening an HTML email containing embedded javascript.

As a result, Google says JavaScript applications remain responsive and performance gets a boost. This is all handled by V8 , Chrome’s JavaScript engine. Here’s how it works.