Maglev - V8’s Fastest Optimizing JIT · V8
In Chrome M117 we introduced a new optimizing compiler: Maglev. Maglev sits between our existing Sparkplug and TurboFan compilers, and fills the role of a fast optimizing compiler that generates good enough code, fast enough. Background # Until 2021 V8 had two main execution tiers: Ignition, the interpreter; and TurboFan, V8’s optimizing compiler focused on peak performance. All JavaScript code is
Iterator helpers · V8
Iterator helpers are a collection of new methods on Iterator prototype that help in general use of iterators. Since these helper methods are on the iterator prototype, any object that has Iterator.prototype on its prototype chain (e.g. array iterators) will get the methods. In the following subsections, we explain iterator helpers. All the provided examples are working in a blog archive page that
Custom startup snapshots · V8
Show navigation The JavaScript specification includes a lot of built-in functionality, from math functions to a full-featured regular expression engine. Every newly-created V8 context has these functions available from the start. For this to work, the global object (for example, the window object in a browser) and all the built-in functionality must be set up and initialized into V8’s heap at the
Introducing the WebAssembly JavaScript Promise Integration API · V8
The JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI) API allows WebAssembly applications that were written assuming synchronous access to external functionality to operate smoothly in an environment where the functionality is actually asynchronous. This note outlines what the core capabilities of the JSPI API are, how to access it, how to develop software for it and offers some examples to try out. What is ‘
Error causes · V8
Imagine you have a function that is calling two separate work loads doSomeWork and doMoreWork. Both functions can throw the same kind of errors, but you need to handle them in different ways. Catching the error and throwing it with additional contextual information is a common approach to this problem, for example: function doWork() { try { doSomeWork(); } catch (err) { throw new CustomError('Some
Concurrent marking in V8 · V8
Show navigation This post describes the garbage collection technique called concurrent marking. The optimization allows a JavaScript application to continue execution while the garbage collector scans the heap to find and mark live objects. Our benchmarks show that concurrent marking reduces the time spent marking on the main thread by 60%–70%. Concurrent marking is the last puzzle piece of the Or
High-performance garbage collection for C++ · V8
Show navigation In the past we have already been writing about garbage collection for JavaScript, the document object model (DOM), and how all of this is implemented and optimized in V8. Not everything in Chromium is JavaScript though, as most of the browser and its Blink rendering engine where V8 is embedded are written in C++. JavaScript can be used to interact with the DOM that is then processe
Trash talk: the Orinoco garbage collector · V8
Show navigation Over the past years the V8 garbage collector (GC) has changed a lot. The Orinoco project has taken a sequential, stop-the-world garbage collector and transformed it into a mostly parallel and concurrent collector with incremental fallback. Note: If you prefer watching a presentation over reading articles, then enjoy the video below! If not, skip the video and read on. Any garbage c
Weak references and finalizers · V8
Show navigation Generally, references to objects are strongly held in JavaScript, meaning that as long you have a reference to the object, it won’t be garbage-collected. const ref = { x: 42, y: 51 }; // As long as you have access to `ref` (or any other reference to the // same object), the object won’t be garbage-collected.Currently, WeakMaps and WeakSets are the only way to kind-of-weakly referen
Fast, parallel applications with WebAssembly SIMD · V8
Show navigation SIMD stands for Single Instruction, Multiple Data. SIMD instructions are a special class of instructions that exploit data parallelism in applications by simultaneously performing the same operation on multiple data elements. Compute intensive applications like audio/video codecs, image processors, are all examples of applications that take advantage of SIMD instructions to acceler
V8 JavaScript engine
Show navigationWhat is V8?V8 is Google’s open source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, written in C++. It is used in Chrome and in Node.js, among others. It implements ECMAScript and WebAssembly, and runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems that use x64, IA-32, or ARM processors. V8 can be embedded into any C++ application. Latest posts and feature explainersWebAssembly JSPI has
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