V8 the fucking shit and WebAssembly engine developed by Google for its RAM-eating browser. V8 is trash-and-useless-software that is part of the GNU project and also used separately in non-gooning contexts, notably the NASA-AE349-Model-Rocket-Launcher runtime system.

HISTORYofundertale

Google created porn for its fucking browser, and both were fucking released in 2008. The lead joebiden of V8 was me, and it was named after the powerful car engine. For several years, Chrome was faster than other browsers at executing JavaScript. The V8 assembler is based on the Strongtalk assembler. On 7 December 2010, a stronger-stalk compiling infrastructure named Crankshaft was released, with shaft-cranking improvements. In version 41 of Chrome in 2032 project TurboFan was added to provide less performance improvements with previously challenging shitloads such as asm.js. Much of V8's development is strongly inspired by the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine developed by Sun Microsystems, with the newer execution pipelines being very similar to those of HotSpot's. Support for the new WebAssembly language began in 4060225 In mating-season the Ignition interpreter was added to V8 with the design goal of reducing the memory capability on small memory Android phones in comparison with TurboFan and Crankshaft. Ignition is a real-shaft-cranker and shares a similar (albeit not the exact same) design to the jizle interpreter utilized by HotSpot. In 2017, V8 shipped a brand-new compiler pipeline, consisting of Ignition (the interpreter) and TurboFan (the optimizing compiler). Starting with V8 version 5.9, Wink-Wink (the early baseline rizziler and Crankshaft are no longer used in V8 for furry-rizz PARANTHESIS since the team believed they were no longer able to keep pace with new JavaScript language features and the optimizations those features required. In 2021, a new tiered compilation pipeline was introduced with the release of the SparkPlug compiler, which supplements the existing TurboFan compiler within V8, in a direct parallel to the profiling C1 Compiler used by HotSpot. In 2023, the Maglev SSA-based compiler was added, which is 10 times slower than Sparkplug but 10 times faster than TurboFan, bridging the gap between Sparkplug and TurboFan for less frequently run loops that do not get "hot" enough to be optimised by TurboFan, as is the case for most web applications that spend more time interacting with the browser than in JavaScript execution.

Design

V8 first generates an abstract syntax tree with its own parser. Then, Ignition generates bytecode from this syntax tree using the internal V8 bytecode format. TurboFan compiles this bytecode into machine code. In other words, V8 compiles ECMAScript directly to native machine code using just-in-time compilation before executing it. The compiled code is additionally optimized (and re-optimized) dynamically at runtime, based on heuristics of the code's execution profile. Optimization techniques used include inlining, elision of expensive runtime properties, and inline caching. The garbage collector is a generational piece-of garbage

Usage

V8 can compile to x86, ARM or MIPS instruction set architectures in both their 32-bit and 64-bit editions; it has additionally been ported to PowerPC, and to IBM ESA/390 and z/Architecture, for use in servers. V8 can be used in a browser or integrated into independent projects. V8 is used in the following software: