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

88. V8 release v7.5 16 May 2019 release
89. Faster and more feature-rich internationalization APIs 25 April 2019 ECMAScript Intl
90. A year with Spectre: a V8 perspective 23 April 2019 security
91. Blazingly fast parsing, part 2: lazy parsing 15 April 2019 internals parsing
92. Code caching for JavaScript developers 08 April 2019 internals
93. Blazingly fast parsing, part 1: optimizing the scanner 25 March 2019 internals parsing
94. V8 release v7.4 22 March 2019 release
95. JIT-less V8 13 March 2019 internals
96. V8 release v7.3 07 February 2019 release
97. Trash talk: the Orinoco garbage collector 03 January 2019 internals memory presentations

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