Google says the latest Google Chrome release comes with a significant performance boost due to newly added improvements to the open-source V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine.

JavaScript makes the web go around and Google has had to patch multiple zero-day or previously unknown flaws in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine this year.

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 ...

And this is where the V8 smarts of Google Chrome come in. While compiling the code, V8 will create in the background a compiled class (just like you have in C++ at run-time) that contains no members.

The new JavaScript engine works better on Google's V8 benchmark, too. Stephen Shankland/CNET On the SunSpider test, now in disfavor in some circles for being obsolete, the two browsers are tied.

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.

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.

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.

To execute JavaScript, Google’s open source V8 engine begins by compiling to machine code with a quick compiler that doesn’t perform any optimization on the code it produces.

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 ...