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Although Chrome's performance beats the current stable version of Firefox, benchmarks show that Mozilla's next-generation JavaScript engine actually outperforms V8.
Opera is working on a JavaScript engine, called Carakan, which is intended to be the fastest JavaScript engine on the planet, according to Opera. Carakan (pronounced Tsharakan) is now 2.5 times ...
The V8 6.7 engine has BigInt support enabled by default. Expected in a future version of ECMAScript, BigInts serve as a numeric primitive in JavaScript to represent integers with arbitrary precision.
The WebKit team has been busy. Publicly announcing a brand new JavaScript engine release, amusingly named SquirrelFish Extreme (nicknamed SFX), they're already boasting performance gains twice as ...
Mozilla’s last previous major JavaScript engine upgrade was TraceMonkey, which gave Firefox 3.5 a big speed boost. Since then, however, “the Web has grown more complex, with more and more ...
The new Nitro JavaScript engine is more than four times faster than the JavaScript engine in Safari 3 and, according to Apple, can execute JavaScript "up to 30 times faster than IE 7 and more than ...
Google's newest test versions of Chrome are equipped with a faster JavaScript engine, an increasingly important browser component for running Web-based programs. The result is faster-loading pages ...
Like many other vendors, Microsoft built its own JavaScript engine in 2008 as the coding language became increasingly crucial to the Web and for many other uses, including mobile apps, cloud ...
The Moddable SDK provides a JavaScript engine for IoT development supporting greater than 99% compliance with the ES2017 specification, starting at less than 32KB.
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.