The new interpreter "is 2-2.5x ... high-level bytecode virtual machine originally named SquirrelFish. It compiled JavaScript into native machine code. The project was later enhanced to gain ...

Then in June, the WebKit team introduced a completely redesigned JavaScript engine called SquirrelFish that uses a JIT bytecode interpreter. This approach netted a 50 percent speed boost when ...

WebKit's previous JavaScript handler was no slouch ... eliminates almost all of the overhead of a tree-walking interpreter. First, a bytecode stream exactly describes the operations needed ...

Java bytecode is morphed into machine-specific code through a real-time interpreter called the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). This JVM builds a dedicated memory space that houses applets and keeps ...

Microsoft has joined the Bytecode Alliance, a group aiming to expand WebAssembly beyond the browser and JavaScript to native applications for desktop and mobile platforms. The Bytecode Alliance ...