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.

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.

Nashorn, the JavaScript engine for Java Virtual Machine, could be deprecated, having been made obsolete by newer technologies. Nashorn debuted in Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 in 2014.

Apple's immensely impressive SquirrelFish Extreme engine currently leads the pack, but Mozilla and Google are also moving forward with new high-performance JavaScript engines.

JavaScript and SEO have long been a debated topic among developers and SEO experts. Search engines have made, and continue to make, significant improvements in indexing JavaScript websites.

Since then, Mozilla has announced a new JavaScript engine called TraceMonkey, expected to ship in Firefox 3.1 slated for release later this year and, by all accounts, introduces significant speed ...

V8 is a JavaScript engine created by Google for the Google Chrome browser. While Google Chrome uses the WebKit engine, it replaces WebKit’s engine with Google’s own giving WebKit a huge boost ...

Microsoft last week revealed that it will release the core components of its Chakra JavaScript engine to open source as ChakraCore.It will be available next month on GitHub under the MIT license.

In hopes of propelling Firefox into the lead, Mozilla is developing a new JavaScript engine called JägerMonkey. To accomplish the feat, the outfit is borrowing some code from Apple's WebKit project.