JavaScript Engines: The Good Parts™ – Mathias Bynens & Benedikt Meurer – JSConf EU 2018




Blog post: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/shapes-ics

JavaScript has definitely been among the most influential technologies for almost a decade now. A lot of this is due to the sophisticated JavaScript VMs in modern browsers, Node.js and Electron. In this talk we’re going to explore important ingredients of these modern JavaScript VMs, specifically how ChakraCore, the engine that powers Microsoft Edge, and V8, the engine that powers Google Chrome, compare to each other for certain key features.

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8 responses to “JavaScript Engines: The Good Parts™ – Mathias Bynens & Benedikt Meurer – JSConf EU 2018”

  1. It amazes me how doing something as simple as making sure your objects have the same shape, even if it is empty, can make a significant impact on performance. Excellent presentation, I think I will have to to a look at some code and see if I can make some improvements to some code I have been working with lately.

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