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 ...

Short builtins is a mechanism by which the V8 engine optimizes the location in memory of generated code. When V8 generates CPU-specific code from JavaScript, it lays that code out in memory.

One of the main updates in Node.js 21 is that the V8 engine was updated to version 11.8.

This shim implements the most essential V8 APIs so that the underlying JavaScript engine change is transparent to Node.js and other native add-on modules written for V8,” Seth said.

Microsoft announced it will open source the JavaScript engine for the new Edge web browser released with Windows 10.

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.

Google's web crawler simulates "idle" states to better render JavaScript-heavy sites, improving indexing of deferred content on webpages. Google's web crawler simulates "idle" states to trigger ...