What is "v8"

n. An internal combustion engine with eight cylinders forming a V shape.

A V8 is an engine with eight cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two banks of four cylinders.

V8 may also refer to:

V8 Vegetable Juice is a trademark name for beverage products sold worldwide and made from either eight vegetables or a mixture of vegetables and fruits. The brand is owned by the Campbell Soup Company.

The original V8 got its name from the fact that it contained the juices of eight different vegetables.

V8 was an Argentine heavy metal band created in 1979, one of the first notable Argentine and Latin America bands of that genre. After its dissolution former members have continued their careers starting other heavy metal bands, Hermética, Horcas, Rata Blanca, Logos and Almafuerte.

The V8 JavaScript Engine is an open source JavaScript engine developed by The Chromium Project for the Google Chrome web browser. It has since seen use in many other projects, such as Couchbase, MongoDB and Node.js that are used server side. , the head programmer is Lars Bak. The first version of the V8 engine was released at the same time as the first version of Chrome, September 2, 2008.

V8 compiles JavaScript to native machine code ( IA-32, x86-64, ARM, or MIPS ISAs; has also been ported to PowerPC and IBM s390 for use in servers) before executing it, instead of more traditional techniques such as interpreting bytecode or compiling the whole program to machine code and executing it from a filesystem. The compiled code is additionally optimized (and re-optimized) dynamically at runtime, based on heuristics of the code's execution profile. Optimization techniques used include inlining, elision of expensive runtime properties, and inline caching, among many others.

V8 is a power pop band formed in Wales by Donnie Vie of Enuff Z'nuff, Baz Francis of Magic Eight Ball and Lewis John.