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Really interesting paper. When I first heard about what WebAssembly was trying to achieve, I naively wondered why people didn't just slap some existing interpre
by Asdfbla 9y ago
Really interesting paper. When I first heard about what WebAssembly was trying to achieve, I naively wondered why people didn't just slap some existing interpreter for bytecode into browsers (JVM, .NET, maybe even adapt LLVM?) and go with that. I knew people had been burned by Java applets, but I was still curious why they invented something new again instead of possibly adapting existing stuff.
Of course I accepted that they surely had some good reasons for doing it the way they did, but the paper has some interesting specific points in favor of the Webassembly and against existing stuff like the JVM (easier verification of the bytecode etc.).