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WebAssembly Browser Preview
WebAssembly or Wasm is a new runtime and compilation target for the web, now available behind a flag in Chrome Canary!
V8 Blog
V8 is Google’s open source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, written in C++.
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Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8
Starting today, experimental support for WebAssembly is available in V8 and Chromium behind a flag.
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ES6, ES7, and beyond
V8 v5.2 supports ES2015 and ES2016!
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There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random()
V8’s Math.random implementation now uses an algorithm called xorshift128+, improving the randomness compared to the old MWC1616 implementation.
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Adding BigInts to V8
V8 now supports BigInts, a JavaScript language feature enabling arbitrary-precision integers.
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V8 release v6.6
V8 v6.6 includes optional catch binding, extended string trimming, several parse/compile/runtime performance improvements, and much more!
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V8 release v6.8
V8 v6.8 features reduced memory consumption and several performance improvements.
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Improved code caching
Starting with Chrome 66, V8 caches more (byte)code by generating the cache after top-level execution.
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V8 Release 5.1
V8 v5.1 comes with performance improvements, reduced jank and memory consumption, and increased support for ECMAScript language features.
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Ten years of V8
An overview of major milestones for the V8 project in the past 10 years as well as the years before, when the project was still secret.
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Fall cleaning: Optimizing V8 memory consumption
The V8 team analyzed and significantly reduced the memory footprint of several websites that were identified as representative of modern web development patterns.
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Liftoff: a new baseline compiler for WebAssembly in V8
Liftoff is a new baseline compiler for WebAssembly, shipping in V8 v6.9.
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Optimizing hash tables: hiding the hash code
Several JavaScript data structures such as Map, Set, WeakSet, and WeakMap use hash tables under the hood. This article explains how V8 v6.3 improves hash table performance.
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V8 JavaScript Engine: V8 Release 5.4
V8 v5.4 comes with performance improvements and reduced memory consumption.
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How V8 handles JavaScript properties internally
This technical deep-dive explains how V8 handles JavaScript properties behind the scenes.
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Launching Ignition and TurboFan
V8 v5.9 comes with a brand-new JavaScript execution pipeline, built upon the Ignition interpreter and the TurboFan optimizing compiler.
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Recent efforts in V8 and DevTools for Node.js
This blog post highlights some of the recent efforts to make Node.js better supported in V8 and Chrome DevTools.
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V8 release v6.9
V8 v6.9 features reduced memory usage through embedded built-ins, faster WebAssembly startup through Liftoff, better DataView and WeakMap performance, and much more!