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 ...

Apple have launched Safari 4, the latest version of their browser for OS X and Windows. Claimed to run JavaScript over four times faster than Safari 3 and thirty times faster than IE7, thanks to the ...

Apple is apparently working on significant improvements to JavaScript performance for its Safari browser, as shown by the inclusion of accelerator upgrades in recent builds of WebKit, reports ...

Stacks of unmarked boxes are appearing at a Quanta distribution center just days before WWDC. Meanwhile, the WebKit team plans a major performance boost to JavaScript in Safari; the company has ...

We looked last week at some of the things that can influence the speed of programming languages and how different approaches to running code can influence program performance. Some work described by ...

Apple has just upgraded its Safari browser to version 5.1.4, and it contains a number of performance enhancements and bug fixes for users running OS X Lion as well as users who still run Snow Leopard.

Apple developer note on JavaScript Apple has published a developer note on how different Mac browsers - including its own Safari - handle JavaScript. "Apple's beta release of Safari has added a sixth ...

Apple's FTLJIT project aims to give JavaScript a boost, and it doesn't require the use of asm.js for its speed improvements Mention JavaScript engines at this point ...

The JavaScript performance improvements that accompany iOS 4.3—boosting raw performance as much as 2.5x—don’t appear to carry over to in-app browsers or Web apps saved to the home screen. Another bug ...

Research and analyst firm RedMonk has discovered that JavaScript is the most used programming language, but with a very small margin to Java in second place. The rankings also show Apple Inc.’s Swift ...