Early July this year, Node.js released a security update for all currently maintained branches to address a hash flooding vulnerability. This intermediate fix comes at the cost of a significant startup performance regression. In the meantime, V8 has implemented a solution which avoids the performance penalty.
Every six weeks, we create a new branch of V8 as part of our release process. Each version is branched from V8’s Git master immediately before a Chrome Beta milestone. Today we’re pleased to announce our newest branch, V8 version 6.1, which is in beta until its release in coordination with Chrome 61 Stable in several weeks. V8 v6.1 is filled with all sorts of developer-facing goodies. We’d like to give you a preview of some of the highlights in anticipation of the release.
Every six weeks, we create a new branch of V8 as part of our release process. Each version is branched from V8’s Git master immediately before a Chrome Beta milestone. Today we’re pleased to announce our newest branch, V8 version 6.0, which will be in beta until it is released in coordination with Chrome 60 Stable in several weeks. V8 6.0 is filled with all sorts of developer-facing goodies. We’d like to give you a preview of some of the highlights in anticipation of the release.
Today we are excited to announce the launch of a new JavaScript execution pipeline for V8 v5.9 that will reach Chrome Stable in v59. With the new pipeline, we achieve big performance improvements and significant memory savings on real-world JavaScript applications. We’ll discuss the numbers in more detail at the end of this post, but first let’s take a look at the pipeline itself.
Every six weeks, we create a new branch of V8 as part of our release process. Each version is branched from V8’s Git master immediately before a Chrome Beta milestone. Today we’re pleased to announce our newest branch, V8 version 5.9, which will be in beta until it is released in coordination with Chrome 59 Stable in several weeks. V8 5.9 is filled with all sorts of developer-facing goodies. We’d like to give you a preview of some of the highlights in anticipation of the release.
The history of JavaScript benchmarks is a story of constant evolution. As the web expanded from simple documents to dynamic client-side applications, new JavaScript benchmarks were created to measure workloads that became important for new use cases. This constant change has given individual benchmarks finite lifespans. As web browser and virtual machine (VM) implementations begin to over-optimize for specific test cases, benchmarks themselves cease to become effective proxies for their original use cases. One of the first JavaScript benchmarks, SunSpider, provided early incentives for shipping fast optimizing compilers. However, as VM engineers uncovered the limitations of microbenchmarks and found new ways to optimize around SunSpider’s limitations, the browser community retired SunSpider as a recommended benchmark.
Every six weeks, we create a new branch of V8 as part of our release process. Each version is branched from V8’s Git master immediately before a Chrome Beta milestone. Today we’re pleased to announce our newest branch, V8 version 5.8, which will be in beta until it is released in coordination with Chrome 58 Stable in several weeks. V8 5.8 is filled with all sorts of developer-facing goodies. We’d like to give you a preview of some of the highlights in anticipation of the release.
for-in is a widely used language feature present in many frameworks. Despite its ubiquity, it is one of the more obscure language constructs from an implementation perspective. V8 went to great lengths to make this feature as fast as possible. Over the course of the past year, for-in became fully spec-compliant and up to 3 times faster, depending on the context.
The V8 team is currently working on a new default compiler pipeline that will help us bring future speedups to real-world JavaScript. You can preview the new pipeline in Chrome Canary today to help us verify that there are no surprises when we roll out the new configuration for all Chrome channels.