Approaches to optimizing V8 JavaScript engine
https://doi.org/10.15514/ISPRAS-2015-27(6)-2
Abstract
JavaScript is one of the most ubiquitous programming languages. Performance of JavaScript engines however is not always satisfactory. We developed approaches that increase performance of V8 engine up to 10% on major benchmark suites.
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Review
For citations:
Botcharniko D. Approaches to optimizing V8 JavaScript engine. Proceedings of the Institute for System Programming of the RAS (Proceedings of ISP RAS). 2015;27(6):21-32. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.15514/ISPRAS-2015-27(6)-2
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