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You cannot download and execute arbitrary files, so had to have something interpreted. They could pick something easier to emulate perhaps, but x86 has benefit
by dwaite 5y ago
You cannot download and execute arbitrary files, so had to have something interpreted.
They could pick something easier to emulate perhaps, but x86 has benefits from a compatibility standpoint.
Maybe one day there would be a benefit of targetting WASM with a natively implemented syscall api?
- saagarjha 5y agoWe looked into it; the problem is that this makes system calls unbearably slow because they require IPC.