Apple's WebKit JavaScriptCore is now a "triple tier virtual machine," offering the potential for 2-2.5 times faster JavaScript performance in Safari. Recent changes in Apple's WebKit open source ...

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 faster ...

When programming a microcontroller to do your bidding, you only have two choices. You could write your code in a proper language such as C and cross-compile your source into a piece of firmware easily ...

Apple's annual developer conference won't kick off until June 9 but already there's some exciting news for Mac fans. The team behind Apple's Safari web browser have announced a new, and much faster, ...

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The ESP8266 is a popular WiFi chip that provides a relatively transparent connection between the TX and RX pins of a microcontroller and a WiFi network. It was released a little more than a year ago, ...

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 ...

Adafruit has this week announced the arrival of the Espruino Pico to their store priced at $24.95 and takes the form of a tiny board that has an STM32 microcontroller pre-programmed with Espruino. The ...