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jacob.bramley dad635ee7a [arm64] Use SP-offset rather than FP-offset.
A64 loads and stores can have much larger positive than negative
immediate offsets, and since most frame slots are below fp, we can
significantly improve accesses by basing them on sp instead. Typical
example:

    Before                  After
    mov x16, #-416
    str x20, [fp, x16]      str x20, [jssp, #32]

Notable benchmark results include lua_binarytrees, which improves by
about 7.5% on A57 and 5% on A53. Several other asm.js benchmarks gain
2-4%.

Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/1376173003

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benchmarks Revert "Refactoring: Make gtest testsuite the default." 2014-09-02 09:17:26 +00:00
build make v8_use_snapshot configurable in gn 2015-11-11 01:09:15 +00:00
docs [Docs] Removed unused docs because they are moved to GitHub 2015-11-19 10:23:30 +00:00
include [api] Remove deprecated and unused Set/Map::FromArray 2015-11-19 02:20:20 +00:00
infra Use committer list from chrome-infra-auth group project-v8-committers 2015-08-27 16:10:22 +00:00
samples Fix crash in shell.cc when reporting exceptions that aren't Errors 2015-10-20 14:33:52 +00:00
src [arm64] Use SP-offset rather than FP-offset. 2015-11-19 12:08:12 +00:00
test Correctly parse new regexp flags in v8::RegExp::New. 2015-11-19 10:33:16 +00:00
testing Converted V8 CQ config to proto-format 2015-05-28 15:02:53 +00:00
third_party/binutils Update binutils version. 2015-08-07 08:09:49 +00:00
tools [tools] Add meta script for convenient ranking of GC NVP output. 2015-11-18 15:46:44 +00:00
.clang-format Change clang-format config to allow for two empty lines between functions 2013-12-03 10:39:21 +00:00
.gitignore Use msvs toolchain from depot_tools. 2015-11-02 10:40:28 +00:00
.ycm_extra_conf.py [ycm] The YouCompleteMe configuration is not VIM specific. 2015-02-12 07:21:13 +00:00
AUTHORS [tools] Make gen-postmortem-metadata.py more reliable 2015-11-12 14:48:04 +00:00
BUILD.gn Object's body descriptors refactoring. 2015-11-13 12:32:30 +00:00
ChangeLog Update change log to match roll branch. 2015-05-18 15:03:50 +00:00
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DEPS Update V8 DEPS. 2015-11-19 04:21:00 +00:00
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Makefile.android Reland [android] Migrate more configs to gyp. 2015-06-26 12:04:09 +00:00
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OWNERS Update OWNERS file. 2015-07-16 11:37:51 +00:00
PRESUBMIT.py Remove unused function in presubmit script 2015-09-23 10:52:45 +00:00
README.md [Docs] Removed unused docs because they are moved to GitHub 2015-11-19 10:23:30 +00:00
snapshot_toolchain.gni Split the GN 'snapshot_toolchain' logic out into an include file. 2015-09-22 02:28:40 +00:00
WATCHLISTS Add an interpreter watchlist 2015-10-23 15:43:37 +00:00

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://github.com/v8/v8/wiki

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/*

Contributing

Please follow the instructions mentioned on the V8 wiki.