Someone else linked to a talk that mentioned removing all the layers in some theoretical architecture called METAL (this is a old talk) basically running asm.js

Someone else linked to a talk that mentioned removing all the layers in some theoretical architecture called METAL (this is a old talk) basically running asm.js (again talk is old) directly through the Kernel and even removing overhead that Kernels need for making native code safe (such as the Memory Management Unit) and as a result it would run faster than normal native code. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... The major thing to be gained from all this then is software that can run fast but not have to be recompiled for all the different systems and hardware.