Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by ...

To solve this problem, he created Espruino, a JavaScript interpreter for the new batch of ARM development boards that have been cropping up.

The Espruino Pico is a USB stick that is equipped with a tiny computer and integrated JavaScript interpreter, allowing for instant feedback from whatever device you’re working with.

Here at Hackaday, we find Christmas time very exciting because it means an influx of holiday-themed hacks that really help us get into the festive mood. [Andrew’s] programmable Christmas tree… ...

The new Mozilla JavaScript interpreter is also about 2.4 times faster than the newest interpreter slated for Apple Inc.’s Safari, according to benchmark tests.

SquirrelFish's bytecode engine elegantly eliminates almost all of the overhead of a tree-walking interpreter. First, a bytecode stream exactly describes the operations needed to execute a program.