# Hot-Rodding the Browser Engine: Automatic Configuration of JavaScript Compilers

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04245 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1707.04245/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 11 Jul 2017.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [MAGPIE: Machine Automated General Performance Improvement via Evolution of Software](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.02811/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Modern software systems in many application areas offer to the user a multitude of parameters, switches and other customisation hooks. Humans tend to have difficulties determining the best configurations for particular applications. Modern optimising compilers are an example of such software systems; their many parameters need to be tuned for optimal performance, but are often left at the default values for convenience. In this work, we automatically determine compiler parameter settings that result in optimised performance for particular applications. Specifically, we apply a state-of-the-art automated parameter configuration procedure based on cutting-edge machine learning and optimisation techniques to two prominent JavaScript compilers and demonstrate that significant performance improvements, more than 35% in some cases, can be achieved over the default parameter settings on a diverse set of benchmarks.