Google speeds up Chrome by compiling JavaScript in the background February 13, 2014 - 6:44 pm ... (V8 still optimizes the large piece of code, but does so in a background thread): ...

Chrome converts the JavaScript code for pages and apps into a faster native code during optimization. In the past, that optimization on Chrome was done by pausing the execution of the code while ...

Google's Chrome browser is touted to get a performance boost as engineers optimise the latest Beta version 33 with a new feature dubbed 'concurrent compilation'.