Asm.js, a Mozilla-driven subset of JavaScript geared toward improving Web application performance and extending the Web to C and C++ applications, is catching up to native C/C++code, Mozilla said ...

JavaScript has certainly enjoyed some considerable speed improvements over time, and there was a great leap forward following the introduction of Google’s V8 JavaScript engine about five years ago.

Mozilla’s new Tracemonkey JavaScript engine — released with Firefox 3.5 — put the browser at the top of most page rendering speed tests.

Early JavaScript benchmarks from iPhones running a beta of iPhone OS 3.0 suggest the new version will bring big speed gains to web apps running in Mobile Safari, even on existing iPhone hardware ...

C++ is better than JavaScript if you need to build applications where you must squeeze every single last drop of performance out of a single CPU. i.e. gaming, video editing software, 3D rendering ...

JavaScript remains by a long way the most popular programming language with 13.8 million developers, according to SlashData, a UK firm that studies developer communities. The company estimates in ...

Large JavaScript Web apps can be hard to develop and slow to run. Google’s Dart language may offer a solution to address both of those issues. JavaScript is often used in a way that was never ...