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Google's V8 on ARM: Five Times Betterarm Blogs - ARM MartynApr. 21, 2011 |
The modern web is built primarily from three technologies: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It is JavaScript that drives the interactive web; slow JavaScript means slow web pages. So today, a huge amount of effort is being put into improving the performance of JavaScript, giving us access to powerful web applications, with features from your desktop, but available wherever you are.
Web applications like Gmail, Google Maps and Google Docs use JavaScript extensively, and the user experience is greatly improved on systems with fast, efficient JavaScript engines. In 2008, this motivated Google to create the V8 JavaScript engine project.