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V8 Blog JSON.stringify is a core JavaScript function for serializing data. Its performance directly affects common operations across the web, from serializing data for a network request to saving data to localStorage. A faster JSON.stringify translates to quicker page interactions and…
V8 Blog In this blog post, we explain two optimizations for WebAssembly that we recently implemented in V8 and that shipped with Google Chrome M137, namely speculative call_indirect inlining and deoptimization support for WebAssembly. In combination, they allow us to generate better…
V8 Blog Getting JavaScript running fast is key for a responsive web app. Even with V8's advanced optimizations, parsing and compiling critical JavaScript during startup can still create performance bottlenecks. Knowing which JavaScript functions to compile during the initial script…
V8 Blog V8’s end-tier optimizing compiler, Turbofan, is famously one of the few large-scale production compilers to use Sea of Nodes (SoN). However, since almost 3 years ago, we’ve started to get rid of Sea of Nodes and fall back to a more traditional Control-Flow Graph (CFG)…
V8 Blog At V8, we're constantly striving to improve JavaScript performance. As part of this effort, we recently revisited the JetStream2 benchmark suite to eliminate performance cliffs. This post details a specific optimization we made that yielded a significant 2.5x improvement in the…
V8 Blog The JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI) API allows WebAssembly applications that were written assuming synchronous access to external functionality to operate smoothly in an environment where the functionality is actually asynchronous. This note outlines what the core…
V8 Blog WebAssembly’s JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI) API has a new API, available in Chrome release M126. We talk about what has changed, how to use it with Emscripten, and what is the roadmap for JSPI. JSPI is an API that allows WebAssembly applications that use sequential APIs…
V8 Blog After almost three years since the initial design document and hundreds of CLs in the meantime, the V8 Sandbox — a lightweight, in-process sandbox for V8 — has now progressed to the point where it is no longer considered an experimental security feature. Starting today, the V8…
V8 Blog WebAssembly’s JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI) API is entering an origin trial, with Chrome release M123. What that means is that you can test whether you and your users can benefit from this new API. JSPI is an API that allows so-called sequential code – that has been…
V8 Blog Did you ever wonder where undefined, true, and other core JavaScript objects come from? These objects are the atoms of any user defined object and need to be there first. V8 calls them immovable immutable roots and they live in their own heap – the read-only heap. Since they are…