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 ...

Higgs, an experimental JavaScript engine written in D, uses novel approaches to speed up JavaScript -- and could inspire similar projects An experimental new JavaScript compiler could provide useful ...

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 percent ...

Babel is a popular JavaScript compiler that has been installed nearly eight million times and claims dozens of high-profile customers, from Facebook to Netflix to Spotify to Yahoo. The new 6.0.0 ...

Today is beta-release day at Mozilla, and the organization is launching new beta versions of Firefox for the desktop and Android. This time around, the desktop version is set to get the most ...

In an effort to keep Firefox competitive with commercial browsers and handle the ever-heavier burden that interactive webpages put on browsers’ scripting engines, Mozilla is working on a new ...

We looked last week at some of the things that can influence the speed of programming languages and how different approaches to running code can influence program performance. Some work described by ...

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. Google Chrome 91, which ...