Google’s V8 developers noted that, since 2016, they have moved away from tracking synthetic benchmarks, such as Octane, to measuring real-world performance of JavaScript outside of the ...

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. Credit: Google ...

V8, an open source Google project, is a powerful JavaScript engine for Chrome that's helped advance the web and web applications. V8 also powers the server-side runtime Node.js.