Today’s special conference on Chrome, Google announced a new Javascript V8 engine architecture: Crankshaft. Crankshaft can significantly improve the performance of JavaScript, so users have to the Web faster and more smoothly and web application experience, even with complex JavaScript can mention.
Crankshaft can improve the startup speed of web applications, such as Gmail. , Crankshaft contrast Chrome 9, 12% improved website contains a large number of Javascript to load. The theory is that the code will often perform significantly optimized, and those who will not be executed too many times the code will not take the time to optimize.
Crankshaft with 32-bit Intel architecture has been deployed to the V8 Chrome Canary branch, support 64-bit ARM and Crankshaft, it has been started.