Benedikt shows how V8 compiles your JavaScript programs, and explains a few tricks you can use to avoid draining application performance down the sink.

We discuss how Object#toString performs in the V8 engine, why it’s important, how it changed with ES2015 symbols, and how to speed it up.

Angular.js presents a remarkable number of interesting design choices in its code-base. Two particularly interesting cases are the way in which scopes work, and how …