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I guess the point of posting it here is to gather folks with pitchforks and torches demanding immediate attention to the issue. For a few months V8 team has been working hard on im…

Tip: to make V8 startup and context creation significantly faster add 'snapshot=on' to your scons command line. This serializes the default heap during compilation and quickly dese…

There's http://dromaeo.com/?jslib by John Resig. Chrome is pretty good at it.

In V8 Object.create(arg) is implemented roughly as var o = {}; o.__proto__ = arg. The first statement sets the default hidden class for the newly created object. Since hidden class…

V8 supported multiple threads since long ago using a big VM lock approach (v8::Locker). Since 3.2.4 it's possible to run independent V8 code in parallel using the new v8::Isolates …

Being prepared for an interruption does not mean paying attention to your surroundings or actively seeking distraction (e.g. checking email). The problem here is that even if you'v…

This is not really a kernel bug. The exploit exhausts the address space of Xorg (which is already running as root) to make it possible to write to its stack using a shared memory s…

The reason why some frameworks roll out custom object systems is because they try to make JavaScript look like a language with classes, "this" semantics isn't what's driving them. …

To get the equivalent of __proto__ that works in every engine see goog.inherits from Closure.

It seems you should use "Horse extends Animal.prototype" in your examples or just make "Horse extends Animal" compile to "Horse.prototype.__proto__ = Animal.prototype". Also a subc…

Using Python does not prevent parallel execution of tasks. It's just the build tasks graph that gets created by a single process, but then the build system can use all the availabl…