The V8 engine in Google Chrome
An open source project that makes Google number one in the web browser race is Google Chrome. Chrome is built on an exclusively designed JavaScript Engine called the V8. Based on V8, Chrome has gained popularity and attention from users all around the world in a very short space of time. It was first rolled out on September 2, 2008. However, what does this V8 JavaScript engine do which makes it faster and exceptional than any other program? It doesn't go into compiling the high-level language interpreter to machine code. It basically skips the middle part of code interpreting and converts the high-level code to machine code then and there. This is the reason why Chrome is much faster:
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