Version 4.2.4 (based on 3244a66543ef2ab20eb41c1adce1d9d0a5744929)

Auto-generate v8 version based on tags (Chromium issue 446166).

Remove support for signatures with arguments.

Add proper support for proxies to HType (Chromium issue 448730).

[turbofan] Fix truncation/representation sloppiness wrt. bool/bit (issue 3812).

Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

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  11. AUTHORS
  12. BUILD.gn
  13. ChangeLog
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  15. DEPS
  16. LICENSE
  17. LICENSE.strongtalk
  18. LICENSE.v8
  19. LICENSE.valgrind
  20. Makefile
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  22. Makefile.nacl
  23. OWNERS
  24. PRESUBMIT.py
  25. README.md
  26. WATCHLISTS
README.md

V8 JavaScript Engine

V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.

V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262.

V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.

V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.

V8 Project page: https://code.google.com/p/v8/

Getting the Code

Checkout depot tools, and run

fetch v8

This will checkout V8 into the directory v8 and fetch all of its dependencies. To stay up to date, run

git pull origin gclient sync

For fetching all branches, add the following into your remote configuration in .git/config:

    fetch = +refs/branch-heads/*:refs/remotes/branch-heads/*
    fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*