Chakra (JScript engine)

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This article is about the JavaScript engine used in Internet Explorer 9 through 11. For the JavaScript engine used in Microsoft Edge, see Chakra (JavaScript engine). For other uses, see Chakra (disambiguation).
Chakra
Developer(s) Microsoft
Development status Active
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Type JScript engine
License Proprietary
Website {{#property:P856}}

Chakra is a JavaScript engine developed by Microsoft for its Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) web browser. A distinctive feature of the engine is that it JIT compiles scripts on a separate CPU core, parallel to the web browser.[1][2]

Though Microsoft has in the past pointed out that other elements, such as rendering and marshalling, are just as important for a browser's overall performance,[3] their improvements to the engine were in response to evolving competing browsers, compared to which IE8 was lagging behind in terms of JavaScript processing speed.[4] SunSpider tests performed on November 18, 2009 showed the PDC version of IE9 executing scripts much faster than IE8, but slower than Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4, and WebKit Nightly.[3] The same test performed on March 15, 2010 showed the first IE9 Platform Preview (using the then-current version of Chakra) to be faster than Firefox (with SpiderMonkey), but slower than Safari (with SquirrelFish Extreme), Chrome (with V8), and Opera (with Carakan).

On March 8, 2011, Microsoft published results showing the 32-bit Internet Explorer 9 to be faster than Safari, Firefox (with TraceMonkey), Chrome, and Opera.[5]

March 2011 performance tests for ZDNet concluded that Internet Explorer 9 (32-bit), Chrome 10, and Firefox 4 release candidate were "pretty evenly matched."[6] At the Last Call JSCONF in 2015 Microsoft announced that they were Open Sourcing the ChakraCore engine in January of 2016 on GitHub. ChakraCore is essentially the same as the Chakra engine that powers the Microsoft Edge browser, but with platform-agnostic bindings, i.e. without the specific interfaces utilised within the Windows Universal App platform.

Subsequent versions

Subsequent versions of Chakra, such as the version included in Internet Explorer 10, introduced additional performance changes, including JIT compilation on x64 and ARM architectures, and optimizations related to floating point math and garbage collection.[7]

See also

References

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