Opera Preps Super-Fast JavaScript Engine: "Opera Software has announced it is at work on a new JavaScript engine named Carakan (pronounced Tsharakan) that is two-and-a-half times faster than the JavaScript engine in Opera 10. The Opera team has focused on improving on its previous ECMAScript engine in three main areas: register-based bytecode, native code generation and automatic object classification. Opera also announced its Vega vector graphics library."