Google says its new JavaScript compiler saves 17 years of Chrome users' CPU time each day. It should also benefit all Chromium browsers that use it.

Both were introduced three years ago as a part of a two-tier compiler system. Ignition is a bytecode interpreter whose job is to start executing the JavaScript with as little delay as possible.

Apple integrates LLVM compiler to boost WebKit JavaScript performance Since compilers already make fast code, why not take advantage?

Compiler The complete source code of a program produced in a high-level programming language is simultaneously translated into machine code (binary code) by a compiler, a specialized tool.

Writing a compiler seems like a much harder problem than an interpreter. If that is so, why was the first compiler written six years before the first interpreter?

A compiler is a computer program that translates from one format to another, most often from a high-level computer language to byte code and machine code.

This gives a huge domain to specialize the engines in. David Mandelin, the lead of Mozilla JavaScript engine development, proposes to use the Yarr compiler of Nitro’s regular expression handler.

Three years ago, we launched a new two-tier compiler system consisting of Ignition and Turbofan. Ignition is a bytecode interpreter whose job is to start executing the JavaScript with as little ...

Using a fork of the Nuitka Python compiler, py2wasm converts Python programs to Wasm, allowing them to run without interpreter overhead.

The new JavaScript compiler made its debut in the nightly releases of Firefox 18 in September, but the project had already been underway for a good year at that point.