What is V8?

V8 is Google’s open source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, written in C++. It is used in Chrome and in Node.js, among others. It implements ECMAScript and WebAssembly, and runs on Windows 7 or later, macOS 10.12+, and Linux systems that use x64, IA-32, ARM, or MIPS processors. V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.

Latest blog posts

99. Outside the web: standalone WebAssembly binaries using Emscripten 21 November 2019 WebAssembly tooling
100. V8 release v7.9 20 November 2019 release
101. Improving V8 regular expressions 04 October 2019 internals RegExp
102. V8 release v7.8 27 September 2019 release
103. A lighter V8 12 September 2019 internals memory presentations
104. The story of a V8 performance cliff in React 28 August 2019 internals presentations
105. V8 release v7.7 13 August 2019 release
106. Emscripten and the LLVM WebAssembly backend 01 July 2019 WebAssembly tooling
107. The cost of JavaScript in 2019 25 June 2019 internals parsing
108. V8 release v7.6 19 June 2019 release

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