Text parsing isn't the bottleneck: https://mozakai.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-elusive-universal-web-bytecode.html https://mozakai.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-elusiv

Text parsing isn't the bottleneck: https://mozakai.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-elusive-universal-web-bytecode.html https://mozakai.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-elusive-universal-w... (this blog post is pre-WASM, but the main advantage of WASM vs asm.js isn't that WASM is a binary format or even better performance than JS, but that Javascript can focus on being a language again, while WASM can focus on being a compile target)