Mozilla is not the only browser maker working on improving JavaScript performance and memory usage. Google has just announced that the latest Chrome/Chromium builds include V8's new incremental garbage collector (GC).
This new GC is designed to create less disruptive interruptions of the processing flow, ensuri... |
22 November 2011
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Google released the first beta of the Chrome 10 line earlier. It comes with plenty of interesting new features, but perhaps the biggest thing in Chrome 10 is the huge bump in JavaScript performance. For something that's been so touted by Google and which led to a heated competition among browser makers, it'... |
18 February 2011
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Google has updated its V8 JavaScript benchmark suite. V8 benchmark suite version 6 brings a number of changes to some of the tests in the suite, though there's nothing groundbreaking, just some updates and enhancements. "The V8 benchmark suite contains a number of pure JavaScript benchmarks that capture the area... |
7 October 2010
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Google Chrome has made yet another step forward with the availability of two new releases for version 3.0. At the start of October 2009, the Mountain View-based search giant kicked up a notch both the Stable and the Beta flavors of Chrome. It appears that Google is ready to make a habit of this, because, as of Octobe... |
13 October 2009
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Google is moving forward with its own breed of open-source browser based on the WebKit rendering engine. In this regard, users will now be able to download Google Chrome 3.0.189.0. The Build was released to the developer channel on June 17th. In addition to the version designed to integrate with the Windows platform,... |
19 June 2009
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The latest Beta update of Google Chrome came under a week since the previous release, version 2.0.172.27. For Chrome 2.0.172.30 Beta, Google is promising that end users will be able to enjoy extra horsepower when it comes down to websites leveraging JavaScript.The Mountain View-based search giant revealed that an exp... |
25 May 2009
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The Chromium blog had a post recently about the scalability of the V8 JavaScript engine, in which it describes why it is important for a JavaScript engine to scale well when faced with modern complex web applications. With web applications becoming more and more powerful, replacing desktop applications in some cases,... |
25 May 2009
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Forget Chrome 1.0, Google has upgraded its open-source browser to version 2.0. The evolution of the stable release of Google Chrome has taken the browser up to Build 2.0.172.28. What does this mean? Well it means that the Mountain View-based search giant is no longer offering Chrome 1.0 Build 1.0.154.65 as the stable... |
22 May 2009
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Google is pressing ahead with the next version of its open-source browser based on the WebKit engine. The Mountain View company is making sure to provide a steady flow of builds on a weekly basis, keeping testers and early adopters in tune with the evolution of Chrome. In fact, Google is moving forward with no less t... |
21 May 2009
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Google Chrome 2.0.171.0 comes at just over a week since the release of the previous development milestone Build 2.0.170.0. At the start of this week, Chrome 1.0 also evolved, and managed to reach version 1.0.154.53, a release set up to address a number of bugs. According to the Mountain View-based search giant the fo... |
27 March 2009
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Firefox 3.1 codename Shiretoko Alpha 2 Release Candidate is faster than Google Browser (Chrome), according to Brendan Eich, chief architect, Mozilla. The fact of the matter is that the comparison involves only the two browsers' respective JavaScript rendering engines, namely TraceMonkey for Firefox and V8 for Ch... |
4 September 2008
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When you talk about cars V8 indicates pure power, but when you turn to computers the V8 from Cooler Master is meant to offer your high-end CPU the optimum working environment. The newly announced CPU cooler has been previously showed at the Computex show in Taipei, but the company decided to wait until now to officia... |
1 July 2008
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Intel's V8 platform sounds more like a bad-ass car than computer related hardware, but nevertheless, it had to be something with great resonance, in order for it to be a capable match for AMD's 4x4 monster. On the first look the V8 resembles very much with the current server motherboards, and has the same k... |
25 April 2007
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