The V8 team has dropped Crankshaft, a new JIT system for JavaScript, into their bleeding-edge repo. According to their blog entry, it doubles their speed on 3 of 8 V8 benchmarks, and improves page load time by 12% on JS-heavy pages. First off: Congratulations to the V8 team. It looks like great work, pushing forward what kinds of things JS can do in the browser. I look forward to checking out the