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Class static initializer blocks · V8

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Faster JavaScript calls · V8

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V8's Route to Faster JavaScript Method Calls — This gets very technical and fast, but it’s...
V8's Route to Faster JavaScript Method Calls — This gets very technical and fast, but it’s fantastic to see how the V8 team continues to address important performance issues in the world’s most widely used JavaScript engine. This work improves the performance of your Node and browser-facing code alike.
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V8 release v8.6 · V8

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V8 Release 8.6 — The latest version of the V8 JavaScript engine is now in beta...
V8 Release 8.6 — The latest version of the V8 JavaScript engine is now in beta until its eventual release with Chrome 86 and a future version of Node. The codebase is now more respectful, there are speedups in Number.prototype.toString, and a JavaScript fuzzer called js-fuzzer has been open sourced.
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V8 release v8.5 · V8

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V8 Version 8.5 Now in Beta — Coming soon to a Node.js near you (not to...
V8 Version 8.5 Now in Beta — Coming soon to a Node.js near you (not to mention Chrome 85), the latest branch of the V8 JavaScript engine boasts Promise.any, String.prototype.replaceAll (no regex needed!) and support for logical assignment operators (like ||=).
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Pointer Compression in V8 · V8

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A Deep Dive into Pointer Compression in V8 — A very technical post that, gladly, you...
A Deep Dive into Pointer Compression in V8 — A very technical post that, gladly, you don’t need to understand in order to enjoy that pointer compression lets the latest version of the V8 JavaScript engine use as much memory as if it were 32 bit while having 64 bit performance.
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V8 release v7.8 · V8

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A Look at V8 v7.8 — Every six weeks we’re treated to a look at the...
A Look at V8 v7.8 — Every six weeks we’re treated to a look at the newest release of the V8 JavaScript engine (which Node tends to adopt about a month later). v7.8 continues to improve performance (such as with faster object destructuring) and has some improvements for WebAssembly users too (there’s now a way to use V8 solely as a WebAssembly execution engine...
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Object.fromEntries · V8

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Object.fromEntries — The new Object.fromEntries API performs the inverse of Object.entries. This makes it easy to...
Object.fromEntries — The new Object.fromEntries API performs the inverse of Object.entries. This makes it easy to reconstruct an object based on its entries. It’s supported in Node 12 and above.
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V8 release v7.6 · V8

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V8 Release v7.6 — Another day, another branch of V8 is on the boil and headed...
V8 Release v7.6 — Another day, another branch of V8 is on the boil and headed to a Chrome 76 and future version of Node near you soon 😄 This time, the heavily used JSON.parse gets some significant performance improvements, BigInt now has better API support, we gain Promise.allSettled, and more.
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Array.prototype.flat and Array.prototype.flatMap · V8

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Using Array.prototype.flat and Array.prototype.flatMap — A quick look at two methods which are now supported in...
Using Array.prototype.flat and Array.prototype.flatMap — A quick look at two methods which are now supported in the latest versions of Node, Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
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Blazingly fast parsing, part 2: lazy parsing · V8

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V8's Blazingly Fast Parsing: How Lazy Parsing Works — A deep-down, technical post from the V8...
V8's Blazingly Fast Parsing: How Lazy Parsing Works — A deep-down, technical post from the V8 team on how the JavaScript engine’s pre-parsing functionality works to prevent unnecessary parsing taking place before it needs to.
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