Asm.js, a Mozilla-driven subset of JavaScript geared toward improving Web application performance and extending the Web to C and C++ applications, is catching up to native C/C++code, Mozilla said.

Microsoft has lifted the lid on its integration of Mozilla's asm.js optimisations into its Chakra JavaScript engine, and showed that it is up to three times quicker than Internet Explorer 11 in ...

With its asm.js project, Mozilla is promoting a subset of JavaScript intended to improve Web application performance and extend C and C++ applications to the Web. Asm.js can be used as a low-level, ...

A Chrome programmer seeks support for a new Mozilla technology to bridge the C and JavaScript languages -- even though Google has competing ideas. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

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Microsoft has spent the past few days talking about the new browser formerly known as Project Spartan: what it will do, what it won’t do, and what it won’t do yet but will do soon. In their place are ...

Mozilla has developed a version of JavaScript called asm.js that they claim will offer performance near that of native code, which will allow a web browser to run almost any application, reports Ars ...