A new form of data visualization created by a Joyent engineer can help administrators pinpoint CPU and memory resource hogs The person who became known on the Internet for yelling at servers is now ...

There's a performance arms race going on among the various JavaScript engines in your favorite web browsers. The latest to leap ahead is SquirrelFish Extreme, a new version of the JavaScript rendering ...

Google's Android mobile operating system got some significant performance improvements in version 2.2, codenamed Froyo. A high-performance JIT was introduced in Android's Dalvik runtime environment ...

After more than 18 months of hard graft, Mozilla has finally succeeded in landing a big addition to Firefox's JavaScript engine that, upon initial testing, speeds up the web -- or at least the vast ...

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 ...

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 ...