Every four weeks, we create a new branch of V8 as part of our release process. Each version is branched from V8’s Git main immediately before a Chrome Beta milestone. Today we’re pleased to announce our newest branch, V8 version 9.7, which is in beta until its release in coordination with Chrome 97 Stable in several weeks. V8 v9.7 is filled with all sorts of developer-facing goodies. This post provides a preview of some of the highlights in anticipation of the release.

V8 has two compilers to compile WebAssembly code to machine code that can then be executed: the baseline compiler Liftoff and the optimizing compiler TurboFan. Liftoff can generate code much faster than TurboFan, which allows fast startup time. TurboFan, on the other hand, can generate faster code, which allows high peak performance.

Every four 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 9.6, which is in beta until its release in coordination with Chrome 96 Stable in several weeks. V8 v9.6 is filled with all sorts of developer-facing goodies. This post provides a preview of some of the highlights in anticipation of the release.

Every four 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 9.5, which is in beta until its release in coordination with Chrome 95 Stable in several weeks. V8 v9.5 is filled with all sorts of developer-facing goodies. This post provides 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 9.4, which is in beta until its release in coordination with Chrome 94 Stable in several weeks. V8 v9.4 is filled with all sorts of developer-facing goodies. This post provides 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 main Git branch immediately before a Chrome Beta milestone. Today we’re pleased to announce our newest branch, V8 version 9.3, which is in beta until its release in coordination with Chrome 93 Stable in several weeks. V8 v9.3 is filled with all sorts of developer-facing goodies. This post provides 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 9.2, which is in beta until its release in coordination with Chrome 92 Stable in several weeks. V8 v9.2 is filled with all sorts of developer-facing goodies. This post provides a preview of some of the highlights in anticipation of the release.

In V8 v9.1 we’ve temporarily disabled embedded builtins on desktop. While embedding builtins significantly improves memory usage, we’ve realized that function calls between embedded builtins and JIT compiled code can come at a considerable performance penalty. This cost depends on the microarchitecture of the CPU. In this post we’ll explain why this is happening, what the performance looks like, and what we’re planning to do to resolve this long-term.

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 9.1, which is in beta until its release in coordination with Chrome 91 Stable in several weeks. V8 v9.1 is filled with all sorts of developer-facing goodies. This post provides a preview of some of the highlights in anticipation of the release.