New Google tool cuts JavaScript code down to size

Working to improve mobile memory consumption in its V8 JavaScript engine, Google has developed Ignition, a JavaScript interpreter to cut overhead and boost execution of scripts. Google sees the technology offering other opportunities to increase web performance as well.
Through Ignition, V8 compiles JavaScript functions to a concise bytecode that's 25 to 50 percent the size of equivalent baseline machine code, Ross McIlroy, Google engineer for Android software, said. "This bytecode is then exec