To solve this problem, he created Espruino, a JavaScript interpreter for the new batch of ARM development boards that have been cropping up.

It still runs the same Javascript interpreter, though, so all the code is exactly what you’d expect. We haven’t seen many projects using this tiny Javascript of Things, but the new layout does ...

The Espruino Pico is a USB stick that is equipped with a tiny computer and integrated JavaScript interpreter, allowing for instant feedback from whatever device you’re working with.

SquirrelFish's bytecode engine elegantly eliminates almost all of the overhead of a tree-walking interpreter. First, a bytecode stream exactly describes the operations needed to execute a program.

In doing so, the JavaScript interpreter looks only at the payload and disregards everything else. This technique is not new.

The Webkit blog has posted benchmarks on their "next generation" JavaScript interpreter called SquirrelFish Extreme (SFX). SquirrelFish Extreme uses "more advanced techniques" to deliver even ...

Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by ...

JavaScript on the JVM is better and faster but not always friendlier with Nashorn, the rebuilt JavaScript interpreter ...

JavaScript is the most in-demand programming language for developer jobs and one of the most versatile languages for full-stack development. Here's what you need to know about JavaScript.

JavaScript on the JVM is better and faster but not always friendlier with Nashorn, the rebuilt JavaScript interpreter Nashorn, pronounced “nass-horn,” is German for “rhinoceros,” and it ...