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Carakan, intended to be world's fastest JavaScript engine, will be released in as-yet-undetermined version of the Opera browser Opera is working on a JavaScript engine, called Carakan, which is ...
Although Chrome's performance beats the current stable version of Firefox, benchmarks show that Mozilla's next-generation JavaScript engine actually outperforms V8.
eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft announced it is open-sourcing Chakra, the ...
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 fast ...
The Moddable SDK provides a JavaScript engine for IoT development supporting greater than 99% compliance with the ES2017 specification, starting at less than 32KB.
JaegerMonkey is the new JavaScript engine coming in Firefox 4, and it looks to be as big a jump in performance as TraceMonkey once was (relative to the pre-Chrome days). You can try out ...
Facebook has released a new open source JavaScript engine, Hermes, to speed up start times for native Android apps built with Facebook's own React Native JavaScript framework. Facebook software ...
Apple has released a public beta of Safari 4, introducing several new end-user features, along with built in developer tools and a new JavaScript engine called Nitro. The new Nitro JavaScript engine ...
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. It has ...
Search engines have made improvements in indexing JavaScript websites. But the question of whether they can properly render JS pages remains muddled. JavaScript and SEO have long been a debated topic ...