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 ...

The programming language JavaScript emerged 25 years ago and has grown to become one of the most important pieces of the web and browser applications we use today. JavaScript is the go-to ...

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 ...