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From the creator of Emscripten: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/03/why-webassembly-is-faster-than-asm-js/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/03/why-webassembly-is-faster-... Asmjs was a clever hack but still a hack, and starting over with a clean slate let them fix various limitations inherent to using Javascript as a compilation target