Opera is working on a JavaScript engine, called Carakan, which is intended to be the fastest JavaScript engine on the planet, according to Opera. Carakan (pronounced Tsharakan) is now 2.5 times ...

An important component of delivering a fast browser is fast JavaScript execution. In Chrome, that job is done by the V8 engine which executes over 78 years worth of JavaScript code on a daily basis.

Following Microsoft announcing it would open-source its Chakra JavaScript engine late last year, the company has done exactly that, uploading it to GitHub today. ChakraCore is a self-contained ...

One might imagine, what is the point of having a JavaScript engine written in a traditionally slow language such as JavaScript itself? We don’t want to delude you into thinking that everything ...

In a power move, Microsoft is open sourcing one of the most important parts of its browser's engine.

Oracle's Project Nashorn is focused on developing a JavaScript engine for the company's JVM (Java Virtual Machine) that is intended to leverage JVM libraries and offer higher performance than the ...

Search engines have made improvements in indexing JavaScript websites. But the question of whether they can properly render JS pages remains muddled.

N-API should break the dependency on Google’s V8 engine and help developers avoid recompilation for new versions and engines Help is on the way for developers building native modules for Node.js ...