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Think of WebAssembly as a binary encoding of asm.js. You'll be able to deliver the same program in either format. Asm.js will still be around to support older b
by hackcasual 10y ago
Think of WebAssembly as a binary encoding of asm.js. You'll be able to deliver the same program in either format. Asm.js will still be around to support older browsers.
- jakub_h 10y agoI sort of think about it the other way round, actually.
- hackcasual 10y agoNot sure what you mean? Asm.js was defined a couple of years before Web assembly
- jakub_h 10y agoYes, but it was defined after actual assembly/low level languages like BLISS. So it was defined as a way of doing something "assembly-like" (or BLISS-like, or BCPL-like) in an environment that didn't allow for such code.
- nawitus 10y ago> Asm.js will still be around to support older browsers. I don't see a need for this since WebAssembly will provide a polyfill.
- hackcasual 10y agoThe polyfill won't benefit from browser based JIT compilation. If you're concerned with performance, even for browsers that don't support wasm, you'll want to switch to asm.js.