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.

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115. Indicium: V8 runtime tracer tool 01 October 2020 tools system-analyzer
116. Slack tracking in V8 24 September 2020 internals
117. V8 release v8.6 21 September 2020 release
118. V8 release v8.5 21 July 2020 release
119. V8 release v8.4 30 June 2020 release
120. High-performance garbage collection for C++ 26 May 2020 internals memory cppgc
121. Understanding the ECMAScript spec, part 4 19 May 2020 ECMAScript Understanding ECMAScript
122. Up to 4GB of memory in WebAssembly 14 May 2020 WebAssembly JavaScript tooling
123. V8 release v8.3 04 May 2020 release
124. What’s in that .wasm? Introducing: wasm-decompile 27 April 2020 WebAssembly tooling

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