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This could, at least in theory, make it possible to deliver on the web a serious competitor to Photoshop, for example. I don't see that happening any time soon

This could, at least in theory, make it possible to deliver on the web a serious competitor to Photoshop, for example. I don't see that happening any time soon in Javascript.

ootachi 15y ago
You assume wrong. Modern tracing or type-inferring JITs are heavily optimized for the kinds of tight loops you see in image processing.
- cageface 15y ago
  All the heavy lifting in apps like that is done in SIMD.
  - ootachi 15y ago
    Which doesn't require NaCl. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644389 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644389