The latest release of V8, Google's open source JavaScript engine, will reduce heap size by 40 percent by using pointer compression when it is released alongside Chrome 80 stable in a few weeks. V8 is ...

Google has released a new security update for the Chrome browser, addressing a total of 12 vulnerabilities. Among these is a high-severity zero-day flaw that is currently being exploited in real-world ...

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 its ...

‘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 ...

A new project hopes to beef up the security of V8, a part of the Chrome browser that most users aren’t aware of but that hackers increasingly see as a juicy target. Chrome has over two billion users, ...