Simon Willison’s Weblog

Chromium. Google Chrome is out! Here’s the open source project, including the code for the new V8 JavaScript virtual machine.

# 9:06 pm / google, browsers, open-source, v8, javascript, chromium, chrome

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.

# 11:58 pm / google, javascript, v8, chrome