The beta V8 Version 7.4 is now available, with the potential to expand the engine’s footprint to platforms such as Apple iOS. V8 is Google’s open source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine for the ...

Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by ...

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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 ...