I've recently had a need to step through quite a bit of disassembly for different architectures, and although some architectures have well-written ISA manuals it can be a bit jarring...

In the previous post I talked about the plans of the WebKit ports currently using Cairo to switch to Skia for 2D rendering. Apple ports don’t use Cairo, so they...

Following the trend started on my last blog post this is a blog post about Servo presence in a new event, this time FOSDEM 2024. This was my first time...

I merged the Float16 feature to v8 today. (Float16 is half precision defined in IEEE754.) CL: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/5082566 Meaning is, I added Float16Array, DataView.getFloat16, DataView.setFloat16, and Math.fround16

Chromium, the web browser open source project Google Chrome is based on, can be considered nowadays the reference implementation of the web platform. As such, it is the first choice...

The Darkening Some additions to my half-light library for styling Shadow DOM. In case you haven't followed, a number of my recent posts have been thinking about how Shadow DOM...

How We Fund the Web Ecosystem On Tuesday (March 12th, 2024), Robin Berjon and Eric Meyer and I organized, led and scribed a session during W3C breakouts day about how...

Like many other relatively big piece of software, Node.js is no stranger to memory leaks, and with them, fixes and regression tests.

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Introduction I optimized the function Math.hypot to about 200% in v8 which is the javascript engine of Chrome, NodeJS runtime. Math.hypot is the function to calculate the distance commonly. Hypotenuse...