The IE8 browser took about 3800 milliseconds to complete the benchmark. In contrast, Platform Preview 2 had executed the test in under 500 milliseconds.

For end users, this means a faster experience on the web. Google's V8 JavaScript engine, which arrived in 2008, was an important shift in competition between browser makers.

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.

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 ...

I feel the need JavaScript's wide usage has produced great pressure to make the language faster. Google's Chrome was the first browser to really tout JavaScript performance as a feature, and its ...

The Tor Project released Tor Browser 9.0.7 today with a permanent fix for a bug that allowed JavaScript code to run on the Safest security level in some situations while using the previous Tor ...

Mozilla's current JavaScript engine uses nanojit as its native code generator. Adobe originally developed nanojit to power Flash's ActionScript execution and released it under an open source ...

In all these cases, JavaScript execution was a big, though not dominant, portion of the work needed to display a Web page or Web application. Other chores that chewed up a lot of processing time ...