1V8 JavaScript Engine 2============= 3 4V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine. 5 6V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262. 7 8V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source 9browser from Google. 10 11V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application. 12 13V8 Project page: https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki 14 15 16Getting the Code 17============= 18 19Checkout [depot tools](http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/install-depot-tools), and run 20 21 fetch v8 22 23This will checkout V8 into the directory `v8` and fetch all of its dependencies. 24To stay up to date, run 25 26 git pull origin 27 gclient sync 28 29For fetching all branches, add the following into your remote 30configuration in `.git/config`: 31 32 fetch = +refs/branch-heads/*:refs/remotes/branch-heads/* 33 fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* 34 35 36Contributing 37============= 38 39Please follow the instructions mentioned on the 40[V8 wiki](https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Contributing). 41