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| Stable release | 3.8.3[1] / December 27, 2011 |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C++, JavaScript, Assembly |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Android, webOS, Google Chrome OS |
| Platform | x86, x86-64, ARM |
| Type | JavaScript engine |
| License | BSD license |
| Website | http://code.google.com/p/v8/ |
The Google V8 JavaScript Engine is an open source JavaScript engine developed by Google and ships with the Google Chrome web browser.[2] Lars Bak is the head programmer.[3]
V8 increases performance by compiling JavaScript to native machine code before executing it, rather than to execute bytecode or interpreting it. Further performance increases are achieved by employing optimization techniques such as inline caching. With these features, JavaScript applications running within V8 are said to have an effective speed comparable to a compiled binary.
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The garbage collector of V8 is a generational stop-the-world collector.[4]
The V8 assembler is based on the Strongtalk assembler.[5]
On 7th December 2010, a new compilation infrastructure called Crankshaft was introduced, with speed improvements.[6]
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