Carakan (pronounced Tsharakan) is now 2.5 times faster than Futhark, the JavaScript engine in the Opera 10 browser. It could be even faster when ready, the company said.

The N-API effort also aims to ease support of multiple back-end JavaScript engines. Last year, Microsoft came up with a plan to swap out Google’s V8 engine with Microsoft’s ChakraCore engine.

Microsoft Gaurav Seth, principal program manager lead at Microsoft, announces at the JSConf US Last Call conference on Friday that the Chakra JavaScript engine will be an open source project. In a ...

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.

However, it is set to get even faster with the new Javascript rendering engine interpreter that the Webkit group says is 1.6 times faster than WebKit s previous interpreter.

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ECMAScript ...

Unsurprisingly, Python dominated among big data developers that use Apache Spark analytics engine, with 66% citing Python as the language they use with Spark, followed by Java at 34% and Scala at 11%.

Sun has created a collection of scripting engines on its website, and Java SE 6 includes a preconfigured version of Mozilla’s open-source Rhino JavaScript engine.