Apple's WebKit JavaScriptCore is now a "triple tier virtual machine," offering the potential for 2-2.5 times faster JavaScript performance in Safari. Recent changes in Apple's WebKit open source ...

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 ...

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Mozilla has just rolled out OdinMonkey, a new module for Firefox's JavaScript engine that promises to speed up JavaScript execution beyond your wildest dreams. If you were drawn to Chrome because of ...

Java and JavaScript are the most popular programming languages by most metrics, in no small part because they're widely taught and allow for rapid and stable development. But JavaScript and Java ...

Mozilla developer Michael Bebenita has released a JavaScript-based H.264 decoder that is intended to run natively in Web browsers. The decoder, which can display video at 30 frames per second on ...

The interminable JavaScript engine performance wars are continuing, with Microsoft landing the latest blow. Striking this time was Limin Zhu, program manager for the Chakra JavaScript engine that ...

A release candidate of Microsoft's next-generation Internet Explorer browser made available this week has twice finished last in a five-browser benchmark competition. On the Sunspider JavaScript ...

GoDaddy is injecting JavaScript into customer websites for the purposes of tracking which may slow down websites or break them entirely. According to programmer Igor Kromin, issues with his own ...