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I had a silly idea. Why not make LLVM a part of browsers? I heard it was a really performant albeit hard to write languages in. It seems to not have the stigma

by Ygg2 13y ago

I had a silly idea. Why not make LLVM a part of browsers? I heard it was a really performant albeit hard to write languages in. It seems to not have the stigma attached to JVM, especially association with oracle.

mwcampbell 13y ago
This is what PNaCl (Portable Native Client) is trying to do. I'm skeptical though; PNaCl is still experimental in Chromium 29 (the current development version), and requires the browser to download extra files outside of the Chromium package itself, probably because LLVM is quite bulky. If we're going to run high-performance code with the C memory model in a browser, I think asm.js is the best way to do it.