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Google created pretty much this, called it PNaCl and shipped it in Chrome. It now has been retired in favor of WASM.
by jahewson 7y ago
Google created pretty much this, called it PNaCl and shipped it in Chrome. It now has been retired in favor of WASM.
- pjmlp 7y agoBecause Mozilla went political and came up with asm.js as counter technology.
- afiori 7y agoOr as some other (like, eg Google itself) would say: > Because Mozilla went political and came up with asm.js as better technology.
- pjmlp 7y agoI am pretty sure that asm.js would not happened if Chrome already had the market share it enjoys nowadays. WASM is still catching up to PNaCL in performance, hardly better.
- AndrewDucker 7y agoFor the reasoning behind this, see https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#why-not-just-use-llvm-bitcode-as-a-binary-format https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#why...