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Well, I think I heard the name V8 a million times. The first time it came up was at 2008, when an engineer from my team explained to me why the performance of some code would be ok — he said: “V8 will take care of it!” — I nodded. Although I didn’t know what is he talking about, I still wanted to seem up to date with the technical front-end buzzwords which were flooding us these days. Then, when I got back to my computer, I googled it and thought to myself — cool, new JavaScript engine the chrome uses, great, I guess.