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THERE’S MATH.RANDOM(), AND THEN THERE’S MATH.RANDOM() · V8 Math.random() returns a Number value with positive sign, greater than or equal to 0 but less than 1, chosen randomly or pseudo-randomly with approximately uniform distribution over that range, using an implementation-dependent algorithm or strategy.This function takes no arguments. — ES 2015, section 20.2.2.27 Math.random() is the most well-known and frequently-used source of randomness in UNTRUSTED CODE MITIGATIONS · V8 V8 Show navigation. Home; Blog; Docs; JS/Wasm features; Research. Untrusted code mitigations. In early 2018, researchers from Google’s Project Zero disclosed a new class of attacks which exploit speculative execution optimizations used by many CPUs. Because V8 uses an optimizing JIT compiler, TurboFan, to make JavaScript run quickly, in certain circumstances it is vulnerable to the side V8.DEVTRANSLATE THIS PAGE í2e ým ýîfÝU Žœ Q5.ì· Í[ PbSA`I“7œ†7Ì==f£ø Õç ™

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THERE’S MATH.RANDOM(), AND THEN THERE’S MATH.RANDOM() · V8 Math.random() returns a Number value with positive sign, greater than or equal to 0 but less than 1, chosen randomly or pseudo-randomly with approximately uniform distribution over that range, using an implementation-dependent algorithm or strategy.This function takes no arguments. — ES 2015, section 20.2.2.27 Math.random() is the most well-known and frequently-used source of randomness in UNTRUSTED CODE MITIGATIONS · V8 V8 Show navigation. Home; Blog; Docs; JS/Wasm features; Research. Untrusted code mitigations. In early 2018, researchers from Google’s Project Zero disclosed a new class of attacks which exploit speculative execution optimizations used by many CPUs. Because V8 uses an optimizing JIT compiler, TurboFan, to make JavaScript run quickly, in certain circumstances it is vulnerable to the side V8.DEVTRANSLATE THIS PAGE í2e ým ýîfÝU Žœ Q5.ì· Í[ PbSA`I“7œ†7Ì==f£ø Õç ™

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SPARKPLUG — A NON-OPTIMIZING JAVASCRIPT COMPILER · V8 Writing a high-performance JavaScript engine takes more than just having a highly optimising compiler like TurboFan. Particularly for short-lived sessions, like loading websites or command line tools, there’s a lot of work that happens before the optimising compiler even has a chance to start optimising, let alone having time to generate the optimised code. TOP-LEVEL AWAIT · V8 One of the biggest changes to JavaScript with top-level await is the order of execution of modules in your graph. The JavaScript engine executes modules in post-order traversal: starting from the left-most subtree of your module graph, modules are evaluated, their bindings are exported, and their siblings are executed, followed by their

parents.

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application.

BUILDING V8 FROM SOURCE · V8 Except as otherwise noted, any code samples from the V8 project are licensed under V8’s BSD-style license.Other content on this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.For details, see our site policies.our site policies. V8 RELEASE V9.0 · V8 Except as otherwise noted, any code samples from the V8 project are licensed under V8’s BSD-style license.Other content on this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.For details, see our site policies.our site policies. GETTING STARTED WITH EMBEDDING V8 · V8 This is done with external values and internal object fields. First create an object template for the point wrapper object: v8::Local point_templ = v8::ObjectTemplate::New(isolate); Each JavaScript point object keeps a reference to the C++ object for which it is a wrapper with an internal field. RUNTIME CALL STATS · V8 First choose “Web developer” and then select “Edit categories”. Select v8.runtime_stats from the list. Depending on how detailed your investigation is, you may select other categories as well. Press “Record” and switch back to the first tab and load the page. The fastest way is to DEBUGGING OVER THE V8 INSPECTOR PROTOCOL · V8 Except as otherwise noted, any code samples from the V8 project are licensed under V8’s BSD-style license.Other content on this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.For details, see our site policies.our site policies. V8 JAVASCRIPT ENGINE {"short_name":"V8","name":"V8","display":"minimal-ui","icons":[{"src":"/_img/v8-icon-192x192.png","sizes":"192x192","type":"image/png","purpose":"maskable

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application.

BUILDING V8 FROM SOURCE · V8 Except as otherwise noted, any code samples from the V8 project are licensed under V8’s BSD-style license.Other content on this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.For details, see our site policies.our site policies. V8 RELEASE V9.0 · V8 Except as otherwise noted, any code samples from the V8 project are licensed under V8’s BSD-style license.Other content on this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.For details, see our site policies.our site policies. GETTING STARTED WITH EMBEDDING V8 · V8 This is done with external values and internal object fields. First create an object template for the point wrapper object: v8::Local point_templ = v8::ObjectTemplate::New(isolate); Each JavaScript point object keeps a reference to the C++ object for which it is a wrapper with an internal field. RUNTIME CALL STATS · V8 First choose “Web developer” and then select “Edit categories”. Select v8.runtime_stats from the list. Depending on how detailed your investigation is, you may select other categories as well. Press “Record” and switch back to the first tab and load the page. The fastest way is to DEBUGGING OVER THE V8 INSPECTOR PROTOCOL · V8 Except as otherwise noted, any code samples from the V8 project are licensed under V8’s BSD-style license.Other content on this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.For details, see our site policies.our site policies. V8 JAVASCRIPT ENGINE {"short_name":"V8","name":"V8","display":"minimal-ui","icons":[{"src":"/_img/v8-icon-192x192.png","sizes":"192x192","type":"image/png","purpose":"maskable

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USING V8’S SAMPLE-BASED PROFILER · V8 V8 Show navigation. Home; Blog; Docs; JS/Wasm features; Research. Using V8’s sample-based profiler. V8 has built-in sample-based profiling. Profiling is turned off by default, but can be enabled via the --prof command-line option. The sampler records stacks of both JavaScript and C/C++ code. STACK TRACE API · V8 Except as otherwise noted, any code samples from the V8 project are licensed under V8’s BSD-style license.Other content on this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.For details, see our site policies.our site policies. FAST PROPERTIES IN V8 · V8 In this blog post we are going to explain how V8 can provide fast property access while handling dynamically-added properties. Understanding how properties work is essential for explaining how optimizations such as inline caches work in V8. This post explains the difference in handling integer-indexed and named properties. V8 RELEASE V8.6 · V8 V8 release v8.6 brings respectful code, performance improvements, and

normative changes.

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JIT-less vs. default V8. Scores are normalized to 100 for V8’s default configuration. Speedometer 2.0 is around 40% slower in JIT-less mode. Roughly half of the regression can be attributed to the disabled optimizing compiler. The other half is caused by the regular expression interpreter, which was originally intended as a debugging

aid, and

SPARKPLUG — A NON-OPTIMIZING JAVASCRIPT COMPILER · V8 Writing a high-performance JavaScript engine takes more than just having a highly optimising compiler like TurboFan. Particularly for short-lived sessions, like loading websites or command line tools, there’s a lot of work that happens before the optimising compiler even has a chance to start optimising, let alone having time to generate the optimised code. TOP-LEVEL AWAIT · V8 One of the biggest changes to JavaScript with top-level await is the order of execution of modules in your graph. The JavaScript engine executes modules in post-order traversal: starting from the left-most subtree of your module graph, modules are evaluated, their bindings are exported, and their siblings are executed, followed by their

parents.

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UNTRUSTED CODE MITIGATIONS · V8 V8 Show navigation. Home; Blog; Docs; JS/Wasm features; Research. Untrusted code mitigations. In early 2018, researchers from Google’s Project Zero disclosed a new class of attacks which exploit speculative execution optimizations used by many CPUs. Because V8 uses an optimizing JIT compiler, TurboFan, to make JavaScript run quickly, in certain circumstances it is vulnerable to the side FASTER ASYNC FUNCTIONS AND PROMISES · V8 async / await outperforms hand-written promise code now. The key takeaway here is that we significantly reduced the overhead of async functions — not just in V8, but across all JavaScript engines, by patching the spec. Update: As of V8 v7.2 and Chrome 72, --harmony-await-optimization is enabled by default. V8 JAVASCRIPT ENGINE V8 JavaScript engine BUILDING V8 FROM SOURCE · V8 Except as otherwise noted, any code samples from the V8 project are licensed under V8’s BSD-style license.Other content on this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.For details, see our site policies.our site policies. V8 RELEASE V9.0 · V8 Except as otherwise noted, any code samples from the V8 project are licensed under V8’s BSD-style license.Other content on this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.For details, see our site policies.our site policies. CONTRIBUTING TO V8 · V8 Except as otherwise noted, any code samples from the V8 project are licensed under V8’s BSD-style license.Other content on this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.For details, see our site policies.our site policies. RUNTIME CALL STATS · V8 First choose “Web developer” and then select “Edit categories”. Select v8.runtime_stats from the list. Depending on how detailed your investigation is, you may select other categories as well. Press “Record” and switch back to the first tab and load the page. The fastest way is to DEBUGGING OVER THE V8 INSPECTOR PROTOCOL · V8 Except as otherwise noted, any code samples from the V8 project are licensed under V8’s BSD-style license.Other content on this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.For details, see our site policies.our site policies. STACK TRACE API · V8 Except as otherwise noted, any code samples from the V8 project are licensed under V8’s BSD-style license.Other content on this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.For details, see our site policies.our site policies. V8 JAVASCRIPT ENGINE {"short_name":"V8","name":"V8","display":"minimal-ui","icons":[{"src":"/_img/v8-icon-192x192.png","sizes":"192x192","type":"image/png","purpose":"maskable

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UNTRUSTED CODE MITIGATIONS · V8 V8 Show navigation. Home; Blog; Docs; JS/Wasm features; Research. Untrusted code mitigations. In early 2018, researchers from Google’s Project Zero disclosed a new class of attacks which exploit speculative execution optimizations used by many CPUs. Because V8 uses an optimizing JIT compiler, TurboFan, to make JavaScript run quickly, in certain circumstances it is vulnerable to the side FASTER ASYNC FUNCTIONS AND PROMISES · V8 async / await outperforms hand-written promise code now. The key takeaway here is that we significantly reduced the overhead of async functions — not just in V8, but across all JavaScript engines, by patching the spec. Update: As of V8 v7.2 and Chrome 72, --harmony-await-optimization is enabled by default. V8 JAVASCRIPT ENGINE V8 JavaScript engine BUILDING V8 FROM SOURCE · V8 Except as otherwise noted, any code samples from the V8 project are licensed under V8’s BSD-style license.Other content on this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.For details, see our site policies.our site policies. CODE CACHING FOR JAVASCRIPT DEVELOPERS · V8 Code caching (also known as bytecode caching) is an important optimization in browsers.It reduces the start-up time of commonly visited websites by caching the result of parsing + compilation. Most popular browsers implement some form of code caching, and Chrome is no exception. Indeed, we’ve written and talked about how Chrome and V8 cache compiled code in the past. ATOMICS.WAIT, ATOMICS.NOTIFY, ATOMICS.WAITASYNC · V8 Atomics.wait and Atomics.notify are low-level synchronization primitives useful for implementing mutexes and other means of synchronization. However, since Atomics.wait is blocking, it’s not possible to call it on the main thread (trying to do so throws a TypeError).. Starting from version 8.7, V8 supports a non-blocking version, Atomics.waitAsync, which is also usable on the main thread. FAST, PARALLEL APPLICATIONS WITH WEBASSEMBLY SIMD · V8 Fast, parallel applications with WebAssembly SIMD. SIMD stands for Single Instruction, Multiple Data. SIMD instructions are a special class of instructions that exploit data parallelism in applications by simultaneously performing the same operation on multiple data elements. Compute intensive applications like audio/video codecs,

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V8 TORQUE USER MANUAL · V8 V8 Show navigation. Home; Blog; Docs; JS/Wasm features; Research. V8 Torque user manual. V8 Torque is a language that allows developers contributing to the V8 project to express changes in the VM by focusing on the intent of their changes to the VM, rather than preoccupying themselves with unrelated implementation details. The language was designed to be simple enough to make it easy to FAST PROPERTIES IN V8 · V8 In this blog post we are going to explain how V8 can provide fast property access while handling dynamically-added properties. Understanding how properties work is essential for explaining how optimizations such as inline caches work in V8. This post explains the difference in handling integer-indexed and named properties. IMPROVING DATAVIEW PERFORMANCE IN V8 · V8 Improving. DataView. performance in V8. DataView s are one of the two possible ways to do low-level memory accesses in JavaScript, the other one being TypedArray s. Up until now, DataView s were much less optimized than TypedArray s in V8, resulting in lower performance on tasks such as graphics-intensive workloads or when decoding/encoding TOP-LEVEL AWAIT · V8 One of the biggest changes to JavaScript with top-level await is the order of execution of modules in your graph. The JavaScript engine executes modules in post-order traversal: starting from the left-most subtree of your module graph, modules are evaluated, their bindings are exported, and their siblings are executed, followed by their

parents.

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application.

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FAST PROPERTIES IN V8 · V8 In this blog post we are going to explain how V8 can provide fast property access while handling dynamically-added properties. Understanding how properties work is essential for explaining how optimizations such as inline caches work in V8. This post explains the difference in handling integer-indexed and named properties. UNTRUSTED CODE MITIGATIONS · V8 V8 Show navigation. Home; Blog; Docs; JS/Wasm features; Research. Untrusted code mitigations. In early 2018, researchers from Google’s Project Zero disclosed a new class of attacks which exploit speculative execution optimizations used by many CPUs. Because V8 uses an optimizing JIT compiler, TurboFan, to make JavaScript run quickly, in certain circumstances it is vulnerable to the side V8 JAVASCRIPT ENGINE V8 JavaScript engine V8 JAVASCRIPT ENGINEBLOGDOCSJS/WASM FEATURESRESEARCHPOINTER COMPRESSION IN V8CPPGC It is used in Chrome and in Node.js, among others. It implements ECMAScript and WebAssembly, and runs on Windows 7 or later, macOS 10.12+, and Linux systems that use x64, IA-32, ARM, or MIPS processors. V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++

application.

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FAST PROPERTIES IN V8 · V8 In this blog post we are going to explain how V8 can provide fast property access while handling dynamically-added properties. Understanding how properties work is essential for explaining how optimizations such as inline caches work in V8. This post explains the difference in handling integer-indexed and named properties. UNTRUSTED CODE MITIGATIONS · V8 V8 Show navigation. Home; Blog; Docs; JS/Wasm features; Research. Untrusted code mitigations. In early 2018, researchers from Google’s Project Zero disclosed a new class of attacks which exploit speculative execution optimizations used by many CPUs. Because V8 uses an optimizing JIT compiler, TurboFan, to make JavaScript run quickly, in certain circumstances it is vulnerable to the side V8 JAVASCRIPT ENGINE V8 JavaScript engine GETTING STARTED WITH EMBEDDING V8 · V8 This is done with external values and internal object fields. First create an object template for the point wrapper object: v8::Local point_templ = v8::ObjectTemplate::New(isolate); Each JavaScript point object keeps a reference to the C++ object for which it is a wrapper with an internal field. CHECKING OUT THE V8 SOURCE CODE · V8 Paste those lines into your shell. Now, get the V8 source code, including all branches and dependencies: mkdir ~/v8. cd ~/v8. fetch v8. cd v8. After that you’re intentionally in a detached head state. Optionally you can specify how new branches should be tracked: git config branch.autosetupmerge always. V8 RELEASE V8.6 · V8 Except as otherwise noted, any code samples from the V8 project are licensed under V8’s BSD-style license.Other content on this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.For details, see our site policies.our site policies. DEBUGGING OVER THE V8 INSPECTOR PROTOCOL · V8 Except as otherwise noted, any code samples from the V8 project are licensed under V8’s BSD-style license.Other content on this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.For details, see our site policies.our site policies. USING V8’S SAMPLE-BASED PROFILER · V8 V8 Show navigation. Home; Blog; Docs; JS/Wasm features; Research. Using V8’s sample-based profiler. V8 has built-in sample-based profiling. Profiling is turned off by default, but can be enabled via the --prof command-line option. The sampler records stacks of both JavaScript and C/C++ code. V8 TORQUE USER MANUAL · V8 V8 Show navigation. Home; Blog; Docs; JS/Wasm features; Research. V8 Torque user manual. V8 Torque is a language that allows developers contributing to the V8 project to express changes in the VM by focusing on the intent of their changes to the VM, rather than preoccupying themselves with unrelated implementation details. The language was designed to be simple enough to make it easy to V8 JAVASCRIPT ENGINE {"short_name":"V8","name":"V8","display":"minimal-ui","icons":[{"src":"/_img/v8-icon-192x192.png","sizes":"192x192","type":"image/png","purpose":"maskable

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THERE’S MATH.RANDOM(), AND THEN THERE’S MATH.RANDOM() · V8 Math.random() returns a Number value with positive sign, greater than or equal to 0 but less than 1, chosen randomly or pseudo-randomly with approximately uniform distribution over that range, using an implementation-dependent algorithm or strategy.This function takes no arguments. — ES 2015, section 20.2.2.27 Math.random() is the most well-known and frequently-used source of randomness in

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JIT-less vs. default V8. Scores are normalized to 100 for V8’s default configuration. Speedometer 2.0 is around 40% slower in JIT-less mode. Roughly half of the regression can be attributed to the disabled optimizing compiler. The other half is caused by the regular expression interpreter, which was originally intended as a debugging

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CODE CACHING FOR JAVASCRIPT DEVELOPERS · V8 Code caching (also known as bytecode caching) is an important optimization in browsers.It reduces the start-up time of commonly visited websites by caching the result of parsing + compilation. Most popular browsers implement some form of code caching, and Chrome is no exception. Indeed, we’ve written and talked about how Chrome and V8 cache compiled code in the past. ATOMICS.WAIT, ATOMICS.NOTIFY, ATOMICS.WAITASYNC · V8 Atomics.wait and Atomics.notify are low-level synchronization primitives useful for implementing mutexes and other means of synchronization. However, since Atomics.wait is blocking, it’s not possible to call it on the main thread (trying to do so throws a TypeError).. Starting from version 8.7, V8 supports a non-blocking version, Atomics.waitAsync, which is also usable on the main thread. V8 TORQUE USER MANUAL · V8 V8 Show navigation. Home; Blog; Docs; JS/Wasm features; Research. V8 Torque user manual. V8 Torque is a language that allows developers contributing to the V8 project to express changes in the VM by focusing on the intent of their changes to the VM, rather than preoccupying themselves with unrelated implementation details. The language was designed to be simple enough to make it easy to FAST PROPERTIES IN V8 · V8 In this blog post we are going to explain how V8 can provide fast property access while handling dynamically-added properties. Understanding how properties work is essential for explaining how optimizations such as inline caches work in V8. This post explains the difference in handling integer-indexed and named properties. THERE’S MATH.RANDOM(), AND THEN THERE’S MATH.RANDOM() · V8 Math.random() returns a Number value with positive sign, greater than or equal to 0 but less than 1, chosen randomly or pseudo-randomly with approximately uniform distribution over that range, using an implementation-dependent algorithm or strategy.This function takes no arguments. — ES 2015, section 20.2.2.27 Math.random() is the most well-known and frequently-used source of randomness in CODESTUBASSEMBLER BUILTINS · V8 Builtins #. In V8, builtins can be seen as chunks of code that are executable by the VM at runtime. A common use case is to implement the functions of builtin objects (such as RegExp or Promise), but builtins can also be used to provide other internal functionality (e.g. as part

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TOP-LEVEL AWAIT · V8 One of the biggest changes to JavaScript with top-level await is the order of execution of modules in your graph. The JavaScript engine executes modules in post-order traversal: starting from the left-most subtree of your module graph, modules are evaluated, their bindings are exported, and their siblings are executed, followed by their

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IMPROVING DATAVIEW PERFORMANCE IN V8 · V8 Improving. DataView. performance in V8. DataView s are one of the two possible ways to do low-level memory accesses in JavaScript, the other one being TypedArray s. Up until now, DataView s were much less optimized than TypedArray s in V8, resulting in lower performance on tasks such as graphics-intensive workloads or when decoding/encoding REGEXP MATCH INDICES · V8 JavaScript is now equipped with a new regular expression enhancement, called “match indices”. Imagine you want to find invalid variable names in JavaScript code that coincide with reserved words, and output a caret and an “underline” under the variable name, like: const function = foo; ^------- Invalid variable name.

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