Google speeds up Chrome by compiling JavaScript in the background February 13, 2014 - 6:44 pm ... (V8 still optimizes the large piece of code, but does so in a background thread): ...

Chrome converts the JavaScript code for pages and apps into a faster native code during optimization. In the past, that optimization on Chrome was done by pausing the execution of the code while ...

The JavaScript code is converted into a faster native code during optimisation by Chrome, taking advantage of a multi-core processor's ability to handle multiple simultaneous threads of ...