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 ...

V8, the JavaScript engine featured in Google’s Chrome browser, is getting improvements in performance and code optimization courtesy of both the V8 team and the Russia Academy of Sciences. For ...

With the V8 JIT compiler, Node.js can interpret scripts in JavaScript and is protocol-independent, can use HTTP to serve HTML pages or other protocols for other types of applications. In other ...

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 ...

Google creates branch releases of its V8 JavaScript engine every six weeks to coincide with Google Chrome releases. Version 7.4 of V8 ships with Chrome 74, 7.5 with Chrome 75, and 7.6 with Chrome 76.

Google says the update addresses six security vulnerabilities that could have been exploited by attackers. Among them is a high-severity issue in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. It is a part of Chrome ...

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 ...

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 is a JavaScript engine created by Google for the Google Chrome browser. While Google Chrome uses the WebKit engine, it replaces WebKit’s engine with Google’s own giving WebKit a huge boost ...

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 ...