Turbocharging V8 with mutable heap numbers · V8

02-Mar-2025 45
At V8, we're constantly striving to improve JavaScript performance. As part of this effort, we recently revisited the JetStream2 benchmark suite to eliminate performance cliffs. This post details a specific optimization we made that yielded a significant 2.5x improvement in the async-fs benchmark, contributing to a noticeable boost in the overall score. The optimization was inspired by the benchmark, but such patterns do appear in real-world code.
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