V8 is Google’s open source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine for the Chrome browser ... now supported and enabled by default on the IA32 architecture. For WebAssembly, V8 7.2 has code-generation ...

Although Chrome's performance beats the current stable version of Firefox, benchmarks show that Mozilla's next-generation JavaScript engine actually outperforms V8. Mozilla is using tracing ...

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 ...

Now, however, it looks like upcoming versions of the software could be even speedier thanks to new technology in its V8 JavaScript engine. “As of current dev and beta channel releases ...