Mozilla has developed a version of JavaScript called asm.js that they claim will offer performance near that of native code, which will allow a web browser to run almost any application, reports Ars ...

With its asm.js project, Mozilla is promoting a subset of JavaScript intended to improve Web application performance and extend C and C++ applications to the Web. Asm.js can be used as a low-level, ...

Asm.js, a Mozilla-driven subset of JavaScript geared toward improving Web application performance and extending the Web to C and C++ applications, is catching up to native C/C++code, Mozilla said.

Mozilla has just rolled out OdinMonkey, a new module for Firefox's JavaScript engine that promises to speed up JavaScript execution beyond your wildest dreams. If you were drawn to Chrome because of ...

Microsoft has lifted the lid on its integration of Mozilla's asm.js optimisations into its Chakra JavaScript engine, and showed that it is up to three times quicker than Internet Explorer 11 in ...

Microsoft today announced that it was to start work on supporting asm.js, the high performance JavaScript subset pioneered by Mozilla, in its Chakra JavaScript engine. Being a subset of JavaScript, ...

Microsoft has spent the past few days talking about the new browser formerly known as Project Spartan: what it will do, what it won't do, and what it won't do yet but will do soon. In their place are ...

Browsers today are able to execute JavaScript code significantly faster than just a few years ago, but even as our web apps now look more like desktop apps, JavaScript performance is still a far cry ...