V8, an open source Google project, is a powerful JavaScript engine for Chrome that's helped advance the web and web applications. V8 also powers the server-side runtime Node.js.

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. For ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of you use Chrome as a browser, and good news arrives as Google implemented a serious performance enhancement. Starting with revision 91 you'll be able to benefit from an increase of 23 ...

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.

Search giant Google in its new Chrome browser has souped up JavaScript, calling it V8. Although Google Chrome's V8 sports neither fuel injection nor dual-overhead cams, it does have full ...

Google has launched capture the flag (CTF) competitions focused on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine and Google Cloud’s kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) ...

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.

Although Google adopted Apple's WebKit renderer, the search giant opted to build its own high-performance JavaScript virtual machine called V8.