V8 Design Elements. High level design details of Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, including how it uses “hidden classes” to optimise object property lookups and a bit of information on the machine code generation and garbage collection.
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Its performance is a little less impressive than I'd hoped -- SunSpider reported a 1.8x speedup over FF3's SpiderMonkey. That puts in about on-par with TraceMonkey's current performance.
dmc - 3rd September 2008 09:41 - #