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I agree this would be better, but backward compatibility constraint makes it impossible. WebAssembly is an attempt to add a nicer VM in addition to JS VM.
by sanxiyn 9y ago
I agree this would be better, but backward compatibility constraint makes it impossible. WebAssembly is an attempt to add a nicer VM in addition to JS VM.
- steveklabnik 9y agoI thought one of the points of WebAssembly was to not create a second VM. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Concepts https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Concept... > With the advent of WebAssembly appearing in browsers, the virtual machine that we talked about earlier will now load and run two types of code — JavaScript AND WebAssembly.