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The paper was released at least a year before WebAssembly was even announced...

• shakna 9y ago
  ... and a year after WASM's predecessor was announced.
  • jryan49 9y ago
    Directly from asm.js FAQ (http://asmjs.org/faq.html http://asmjs.org/faq.html): Q. Can asm.js serve as a VM for managed languages, like the JVM or CLR? A. Right now, asm.js has no direct access to garbage-collected data; an asm.js program can only interact indirectly with external data via numeric handles. In future versions we intend to introduce garbage collection and structured data based on the ES6 structured binary data API, which will make asm.js an even better target for managed languages.
    • shakna 9y ago
      Just pointing out that the work on what would become WASM was already heavily underway by that point.