The Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) team isn't the only group at the company that is delving into the finer points around JavaScript. A couple of Microsoft researchers also are doing work that could ...

Java and JavaScript are the most popular programming languages by most metrics, in no small part because they're widely taught and allow for rapid and stable development. But JavaScript and Java ...

Mozilla has just rolled out OdinMonkey, a new module for Firefox's JavaScript engine that promises to speed up JavaScript execution beyond your wildest dreams. If you were drawn to Chrome because of ...

Apple's WebKit team has released a revamped new SunSpider 1.0 benchmark suite for profiling the performance of web browser JavaScript execution, replacing the 0.9 version initially released at the end ...

A release candidate of Microsoft's next-generation Internet Explorer browser made available this week has twice finished last in a five-browser benchmark competition. On the Sunspider JavaScript ...

A few speed tests done on the new iPhone 3GS pitting it both against the old iPhone as well as its main rivals. So far, these have either been eyeball tests or page rendering/boot time tests that take ...

The WebKit team has been busy. Publicly announcing a brand new JavaScript engine release, amusingly named SquirrelFish Extreme (nicknamed SFX), they're already boasting performance gains twice as fast ...

Mozilla developer Michael Bebenita has released a JavaScript-based H.264 decoder that is intended to run natively in Web browsers. The decoder, which can display video at 30 frames per second on ...

The interminable JavaScript engine performance wars are continuing, with Microsoft landing the latest blow. Striking this time was Limin Zhu, program manager for the Chakra JavaScript engine that ...

No one expected the iPhone to deliver desktop-class performance with regard to Web-based applications, but JavaScript speed on the iPhone is downright sluggish in most respects -- a frustrating fact ...