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Ouch, that's a great point about versioning. The thing that appeals to me about asm.js is that it short-cuts the long, slow path of VM optimization and gives g
by constexpr 14y ago
Ouch, that's a great point about versioning.
The thing that appeals to me about asm.js is that it short-cuts the long, slow path of VM optimization and gives great performance now instead of five years down the road. Sure it's an ugly hack but that doesn't matter to your users, all they see is a much faster user experience.
Now all we need is a SIMD API for JS and we can write some truly amazing apps.
- niggler 14y ago"it short-cuts the long, slow path of VM optimization and gives great performance now instead of five years down the road." Something tells me that, based purely on usage metrics, chrome matters more than firefox: http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2013-02/SquidReportClients.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2013-02/Squ... (and pretty much every other metric according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Historical_usage_share https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Hi... )
- Elv13 14y agoThats starcounter numbers. Do you really think IE is bellow 30%? Chrome numbers are inflated.