To improve parsing speed, V8 Version 7.2 includes what Google calls the engine’s fastest-ever JavaScript parser, resulting in quicker page loading and more-responsive pages.

V8 is Google’s fast Javascript engine that they developed for Chrome, and it’s used in Node.js and basically everywhere. ... In the end, V8 Javascript is going with an XorShift generator, ...

V8, the JavaScript engine featured in Google’s Chrome browser, is getting improvements in performance and code optimization courtesy of both the V8 team and the Russia Academy of Sciences. For ...

One of the most impressive features in Google's open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark. Although ...

This latest incident marks the fourth actively exploited zero-day vulnerability fixed in Chrome this year. It follows three ...

Search giant Google in its new Chrome browser has souped up JavaScript, calling it V8. ... I’ve seen pages “proving” through benchmarks that V8 is faster than Firefox’s new engine.

In a new security bulletin, Google said it addressed a type confusion issue in Chrome V8, tracked as CVE-2025-6554, which ...

With the V8 JIT compiler, Node.js can interpret scripts in JavaScript and is protocol-independent, can use HTTP to serve HTML pages or other protocols for other types of applications. In other ...