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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 ...

Following Microsoft announcing it would open-source its Chakra JavaScript engine late last year, the company has done exactly that, uploading it to GitHub today. ChakraCore is a self-contained ...

Are you a Mac user with Google Chrome envy? You really shouldn’t be, especially now that the latest builds of WebKit use a ridiculously fast Javascript engine ...

Carakan, intended to be world's fastest JavaScript engine, will be released in as-yet-undetermined version of the Opera browser Opera is working on a JavaScript engine, called Carakan, which is ...

When Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer (IE) 9, one of the key new components of that browser was its JavaScript engine, codenamed "Chakra." Chakra is still alive and well in IE10, and will be ...

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...

Nashorn, the JavaScript engine for Java Virtual Machine, could be deprecated, having been made obsolete by newer technologies. Nashorn debuted in Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 in 2014. It has boosted ...

Czech antivirus maker Avast has taken the extreme step of disabling a major component of its antivirus product after a security researcher found a dangerous vulnerability that put all of the company's ...