AppleInsider

New low level JavaScript interpreter to boost WebKit performance more than 200%

Apple's WebKit JavaScriptCore is now a "triple tier virtual machine," offering the potential for 2-2.5 times faster JavaScript performance in Safari. Recent changes in Apple's WebKit open source ...
InfoWorld

New Google tool cuts JavaScript code down to size

Working to improve mobile memory consumption in its V8 JavaScript engine, Google has developed Ignition, a JavaScript interpreter to cut overhead and boost execution of scripts. Google sees the ...
Ars Technica

Apple integrates LLVM compiler to boost WebKit JavaScript performance

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 ...
ZDNet

Edge Super Duper Secure Mode turns off the JavaScript JIT compiler for extra security

The lead of Microsoft Edge Vulnerability Research Johnathan Norman has detailed an experiment in Edge that disabled the JavaScript just-in-time (JIT) compiler to enable some extra security protections ...