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You seriously don't see the difference between WASM and CLR/JVM ? JVM/CLR are high level and need to know about things like types/object model - this lets them
by rubber_duck 10y ago
You seriously don't see the difference between WASM and CLR/JVM ? JVM/CLR are high level and need to know about things like types/object model - this lets them do GC more efficiently and fancy stuff like reflection, etc. at
WASM is assembly level just sandboxed and portable - direct memory access and basic instructions - it doesn't even have GC right now.
They are only superficially similar.
- gcr 10y agoSo here's a thought: how is this different from PNaCL and friends?
- dragonwriter 10y agoPNaCl, IIRC, doesn't expose web APIs, but requires message-passing to and from associated JS for that.
- rubber_duck 10y agoConceptually not very different, practically PNaCL has a problem of being an ad-hoc standard based on LLVM - WASM fixes that.