Publications

2023

Meurer, Benedikt (2023). "Debugging with Source Maps". AgentConf 2023, Dornbirn, Austria. [slides]

2021

Meurer, Benedikt (2021). "How we sped up Chrome DevTools stack traces by 10x". [article]

2020

Meurer, Benedikt (2020). "Chrome DevTools". FrontConf 2020, Munich, Germany (online-only due to COVID-19). [slides] [video]

2019

Meurer, Benedikt (2019). "what's happening in V8?". NodeConf EU 2019, Kilkenny, Ireland. [slides] [video]

Meurer, Benedikt (2019). "JavaScript: The fairly odd parts --- explained". WorkerConf 2019, Dornbirn, Austria. [slides]

Collina, Matteo; Meurer, Benedikt (2019). "Making async_hooks fast (enough)". Design document. Chrome/V8, Google. [doc]

Abramov, Dan; Guo, Yang; Meurer, Benedikt (2019). "Surfacing engine signals via Tracing in V8". Design document. Chrome/V8, Google. [doc]

Meurer, Benedikt (2019). "zero-cost async stack traces". Node.js Diagnostics Summit, Munich, Germany. [slides]

Meurer, Benedikt (2019). "JavaScript Performance Pitfalls in V8". [doc]

Meurer, Benedikt (2019). "Faster calls with arguments mismatch". Design document. Chrome/V8, Google. [doc]

Bynens, Mathias; Meurer, Benedikt (2019). "JavaScript engine fundamentals: the good, the bad, and the ugly". AgentConf 2019, Dornbirn, Austria. [slides]

Meurer, Benedikt (2019). "In-place field representation changes". Design document. Chrome/V8, Google. [doc]

Meurer, Benedikt (2019). "Fast frozen & sealed elements in V8". Design document. Chrome/V8, Google. [doc]

Meurer, Benedikt (2019). "Investigation of (transpiled) class performance in V8". Design document. Chrome/V8, Google. [doc]

2018

Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "my life as a V8 engineer". [slides]

Lekova, Maya; Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "Faster async functions and promises". [article]

Lekova, Maya; Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "holding on to your performance promises". NodeConf EU 2018, Kilkenny, Ireland. [slides] [video]

Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "Array destructuring for multi-value returns (in light of React hooks)". Design document. Chrome/V8, Google. [doc]

Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "zero-cost async stack traces". Lightning talk. <plaintext> 2018 unconference, Munich, Germany. [slides]

Meurer, Benedikt; Guo, Yang (2018). "Zero-cost async stack traces". Design document. Chrome/V8, Google. [doc]

Bynens, Mathias; Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "Die Turboloader für den Browser". t3n Ausgabe 53.

Grohens, Théotime; Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "Improving DataView performance in V8". [article]

Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "JavaScript engines: a tale of types, classes, and maps". JSCamp Barcelona. [slides] [video]

Peters, Nadja; Park, Sangyoung; Clifford, Daniel; Kyostila, Sami; McIlroy, Ross; Meurer, Benedikt; Payer, Hannes; Chakraborty, Samarjit (2018). "Phase-Aware Web Browser Power Management on HMP Platforms". ICS 2018.

Peters, Nadja; Park, Sangyoung; Clifford, Daniel; Kyostila, Sami; McIlroy, Ross; Meurer, Benedikt; Payer, Hannes; Chakraborty, Samarjit (2018). "API for Power-Aware Application Design on Mobile Systems". MobileSoft 2018.

Bynens, Mathias; Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "JavaScript engine fundamentals: Shapes and Inline Caches". [article]

Bynens, Mathias; Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "JavaScript engines: The Good Parts™". JSConf EU 2018, Berlin, Germany. [slides] [video]

Lekova, Maya; Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "Holding on to your Performance Promises". Node Collaborator Summit Berlin May 2018. [slides]

Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "Brave New World: Moving on to ES201X". You Gotta Love Frontend Conference. [slides]

Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "JavaScript: The fairly odd parts". You Gotta Love Frontend Conference. [video]

Bynens, Mathias; Meurer, Benedikt; Phelps, Jay; Sevcik, Jaroslav (2018). "S05E10 Modern Web Podcast - V8". Modern Web: The Podcast. [podcast]

Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "Revision 332: Die V8 JavaScript Engine". Working Draft. [podcast]

Bohn, Björn (2018). "Benedikt Meurer: Die Mär der JavaScript-Performance". heise Developer. [article]

Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "Benedikt Meurer Presents: Fun with Enumeration". Munich Frontend Devs Meetup at Google Munich. [slides]

Bynens, Mathias; Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "What’s new in ES2018?". Munich Frontend Devs Meetup at Google Munich. [slides]

Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "JavaScript: The Bad Parts". MunichJS JavaScript User Group Meetup at financial.com, Munich. [slides]

Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "What’s inside of TurboFan?". AgentConf 2018, Dorbirn, Austria. [slides] [video]

Meurer, Benedikt (2018). "JavaScript: The Bad Parts". AgentConf 2018, Dorbirn, Austria. [slides]

2017

Meurer, Benedikt (2017). "A Tale of JavaScript Performance". Munich Frontend Conference, Munich, Germany. [slides]

Meurer, Benedikt (2017). "An Introduction to Speculative Optimization in V8". [article]

Bynens, Mathias; Meurer, Benedikt; Terlson, Brian (2017). "The Future of JavaScript". JSKongress Conference, Munich, Germany. Panel discussion. [video]

Meurer, Benedikt (2017). "A Tale of TurboFan". JSKongress Conference, Munich, Germany. [slides] [video]

Meurer, Benedikt (2017). "Announcing the Web Tooling Benchmark". [article]

Meurer, Benedikt (2017). "A Tale of JavaScript Performance". enterJS Conference, Darmstadt, Germany. [slides]

Meurer, Benedikt (2017). "ESnext Performance - Why bother?". Web Rebels Conference, Oslo, Norway. [slides] [video]

Meurer, Benedikt (2017). "ESnext Performance - Why bother?". Ember Munich Meetup at Google Munich. [slides] [video]

Meurer, Benedikt (2017). "High-performance ES2015 and beyond". [article]

Meurer, Benedikt (2017). "Real World Performance and the Future of JavaScript Benchmarking". The DZone's Guide to Performance: Optimization and Monitoring (Volume III).

Meurer, Benedikt (2017). "TurboFan: A new code generation architecture for V8". Munich Node.JS User Group Meetup at Google Munich. [slides] [video]

Meurer, Benedikt (2017). "Mission accomplished, we are fast!". MunichJS JavaScript User Group Meetup at Google Munich. [slides] [video]

Meurer, Benedikt (2017). "High-Speed ES2015". Munich Node.JS User Group Meetup at Microsoft Munich. [slides] [video]

2016

Hinkelmann, Franziska; Marshall, Peter; Meurer, Benedikt (2016). "Great ES.next performance for the web of tomorrow". Google's 4th PhD Student Summit on Compiler & Programming Technology. Round table talk. [slides]

Meurer, Benedikt (2016). "An overview of the TurboFan compiler". Talk at Google Munich, October 2016. [slides]

Meurer, Benedikt (2016). "ES2015 and beyond performance plan". Planning document. Chrome/V8, Google. [doc]

Meurer, Benedikt (2016). "Iterator builtins design document". Design document. Chrome/V8, Google. [doc]

Meurer, Benedikt (2016). "TurboFan Inlining Heuristics". Design document. Chrome/V8, Google. [doc]

Meurer, Benedikt; Clifford, Daniel; Payer, Hannes; Peters, Nadja; Chakraborty, Samarjit; Park, Sangyoung (2016). "Web Browser Workload Characterization for Power Management on HMP Platforms". Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS '12), October 2016. Abstract. [pdf]

2012

Meurer, Benedikt (2012). "Introduction to Git". Talk at os-cillation Gmbh, May 2012. [slides]

2011

Fischbach, Marcell ; Meurer, Benedikt (2011). "Towards a native toplevel for the OCaml language". Computing Research Repository (CoRR). Programming Languages (cs.PL); Performance (cs.PF). arXiv:1110.1029. [pdf] [bib]

Meurer, Benedikt (2011). "Blocks and Grand Central Dispatch". Talk held at the 2nd CocoaHeads Siegen meeting, August 2011. [slides]

Meurer, Benedikt (2011). "A Step-indexed Semantic Model of Types for the Call-by-Name Lambda Calculus". Computing Research Repository (CoRR). Programming Languages (cs.PL). arXiv:1105.1985. [pdf] [bib]

2010

Meurer, Benedikt (2010). "Just-In-Time compilation of OCaml byte-code". Computing Research Repository (CoRR). Programming Languages (cs.PL); Performance (cs.PF). arXiv:1011.6223. [pdf] [bib]

Meurer, Benedikt (2010). "OCamlJIT 2.0 - Faster Objective Caml". Computing Research Repository (CoRR). Programming Languages (cs.PL). arXiv:1011.1783. [pdf] [bib]

2009

Meurer, Benedikt. "Fast garbage compaction with interior pointers". Unpublished. [pdf]

2008

Brück, Rainer ; Meurer, Benedikt (2008). "Grundlagen und Verfahren für den Mikrosystementwurf". Institut für Mikrosystemtechnik, Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik, Universität Siegen. Vorlesungsskript (draft). [pdf]

2007

Meurer, Benedikt (2007). "Theoretische Grundlagen der Objektorientierung". Institut für Theoretische Informatik, Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Siegen. Diploma thesis. [pdf] [slides]

Meurer, Benedikt (2007). "Theorie der Programmierung III". Institut für Theoretische Informatik, Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Siegen. Vorlesungsmitschrift. [pdf]

Meurer, Benedikt (2007). "PLTL Model Checking". Institut für Theoretische Informatik, Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Siegen. Seminar. [pdf]

Meurer, Benedikt (2007). "A visual tour of Xfce 4.4.0". Presentation.

Benedikt Meurer JavaScript Engine Hacker and Programming Language Enthusiast.