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.

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 ...

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.

The recent 7.2 and 7.3 versions of Google's V8 JavaScript engine improve JavaScript parsing performance, new JavaScript language features, and WebAssembly performance.

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 ...

Node.js and Deno run on the V8 Javascript engine and provide the Node-API to access different features, such as filesystems, that don’t apply to web browsers.

Now, however, it looks like upcoming versions of the software could be even speedier thanks to new technology in its V8 JavaScript engine.

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 ...

Built on Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, Node.js is a library of JavaScript functions that work under an event-driven concurrency model, meaning they are especially well-suited for distributed ...

The WebKit team has announced its next-generation JavaScript engine, called SquirrelFish Extreme, before the previous SquirrelFish even made it into a shipping product. In the last three months ...