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