We looked last week at some of the things that can influence the speed of programming languages and how different approaches to running code can influence program performance. Some work described by ...

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In an effort to keep Firefox competitive with commercial browsers and handle the ever-heavier burden that interactive webpages put on browsers’ scripting engines, Mozilla is working on a new ...

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Google rolled out the latest version of its browser this week with the ability to freeze Tab Groups and have PWAs launch on startup. Under-the-hood, Chrome 91 is 23% faster, thanks to a pair of ...

‘Super-fast’ non-optimizing Sparkplug compiler, which compiles bytecode to machine code, makes its debut in V8 9.1 and Chrome 91. With the Sparkplug compiler, Google is looking to improve JavaScript ...

Babel is a popular JavaScript compiler that has been installed nearly eight million times and claims dozens of high-profile customers, from Facebook to Netflix to Spotify to Yahoo. The new 6.0.0 ...

Google says the latest Google Chrome release comes with a significant performance boost due to newly added improvements to the open-source V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. Google Chrome 91, which ...