V8 is Google’s open source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, written in C++.
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A recent article on WebAssembly Garbage Collection (WasmGC) explains at a high level how the Garbage Collection (GC) proposal aims to better support GC languages in Wasm, which is very important given their popularity. In this article, we will get into the technical details of how GC languages such as Java, Kotlin…
The Explicit Resource Management proposal empowers developers to explicitly manage the lifecycle of resources.
In V8 v9.1 we’re improving V8 performance by 5–15% with Sparkplug: a new, non-optimizing JavaScript compiler.
WABT gains a new decompilation tool that can make it easier to read the contents of Wasm modules.
V8 v7.2 features high-speed JavaScript parsing, faster async-await, reduced memory consumption on ia32, public class fields, and much more!
This document explains the WebAssembly tail calls proposal and demonstrates it with some examples.
V8’s Math.random implementation now uses an algorithm called xorshift128+, improving the randomness compared to the old MWC1616 implementation.
This technical deep-dive explains how V8 handles JavaScript properties behind the scenes.