Some of Chevalier-Boisvert’s work with Higgs in D is reminiscent ... is being used to create a new browser engine and JavaScript compiler called Servo that benefits from the safety and inherent ...

they've decided to stop building their own and instead leverage the optimization capabilities of the LLVM compiler. The work was described earlier this week in a blog post. The WebKit JavaScript ...

Apple's FTLJIT project aims to give JavaScript a boost ... These upgrades, codenamed “FTLJIT,” use the LLVM compiler as the JIT (just-in-time) compilation system. LLVM is a compiler technology ...

“but also for making future JavaScript compiler research much easier. It’s now possible to write an optimization algorithm, plug it into the pipeline, and see what it does.” Firefox 18 is ...

Babel, a compiler toolchain, is used by millions of JavaScript developers to convert ECMAScript 2015 and later code into backwards-compatible JavaScript versions to make it work in older Web browsers ...

It starts with a new JavaScript compiler that “fills the gap between needing to start executing quickly and optimizing the code for maximum performance.” Chrome uses a compiler called Ignition ...