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It's faster. That's literally it. There aren't any new I/O facilities.
by notriddle 7y ago
It's faster. That's literally it. There aren't any new I/O facilities.
- kevingadd 7y agoA few examples of things it adds that are not widely available in JS (if at all, or requiring awkward hacks/hints in JS), off the top of my head: int64 uint32 popcnt copysign reinterpret_cast equivalent (the js hack for this is abysmal) pthreads SIMD AOT compilation To be fair, it's been a while since I was last one of the authors of the webassembly spec, so I could be missing some things.
- Bombthecat 7y agoCould ads be served with web assembly?
- kevingadd 7y agoYes, though I don't know if it makes sense to do it for any reason other than hiding from ad blockers.
- Bombthecat 7y agoWell, for some it is the only reason needed...