September 2018’s V8 Version 6.9 focuses on memory and performance improvements for Google’s JavaScript engine. For memory savings, Version 6.9 offers embedded built-ins for x64-based computers.

One of the most impressive features in Google's open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark. Although ...

To execute JavaScript, Google’s open source V8 engine begins by compiling to machine code with a quick compiler that doesn’t perform any optimization on the code it produces.

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime, built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine, that’s suitable for implementing both desktop and server apps. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model ...

Built on Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, Node.js is a library of JavaScript functions that work under an event-driven concurrency model, meaning they are especially well-suited for distributed ...

Participants will analyze the engine's memory structure, utilize debuggers such as GDB and d8, and develop hands-on proficiency in vulnerability analysis (e.g., out-of-bounds, Type Confusion ...

Node.js and Deno run on the V8 Javascript engine and provide the Node-API to access different features, such as filesystems, that don’t apply to web browsers.

The WebKit team has announced its next-generation JavaScript engine, called SquirrelFish Extreme, before the previous SquirrelFish even made it into a shipping product. In the last three months ...

The vulnerability in the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine is rated as high severity and was discovered by Google’s Threat Analysis Group. The Google Chrome team issued an update to fix a high ...

Over the years, multiple studies have found that Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine was returning not-so-random numbers when you called the Math.random() function. Today that’s been fixed ...