To improve parsing speed, V8 Version 7.2 includes what Google calls the engine’s fastest-ever JavaScript parser, resulting in quicker page loading and more-responsive pages.

The recent 7.4, 7.5, and 7.6 versions of Google's V8 JavaScript engine add several WebAssembly features and JavaScript performance improvements.

The 9.0 release of the V8 JavaScript engine, powering Chrome and Chromium-based browsers, improves the performance of making WebAssembly calls from JavaScript, adds regular expression match ...

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 ...

V8 also sometimes made different optimization decisions each time a JavaScript program ran, with the result that small but performance-critical functions were occasionally overlooked.

Google has shipped a new JavaScript compiler for its V8 JavaScript engine in Chrome called Sparkplug that promises a much faster web experience – and it does it by 'cheating', according to the ...

Version 5.1 of Google’s open source V8 JavaScript engine accommodates the WebAssembly portable code format and improves standards support, performance, and garbage collection. V8 has served as a ...

Search giant Google in its new Chrome browser has souped up JavaScript, calling it V8. Although Google Chrome's V8 sports neither fuel injection nor dual-overhead cams, it does have full ...

Users of the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers have been told that they need not hold too many fears over a one-day vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine used by the two applications ...