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aplzrtve
14y ago
I'll rephrase: why is any new VM to be relegated to the OS? The presence of incumbent VMs? JS is an incumbent. Pepper is similar to nsapi, and has nice features which are compatible with HTML5's implementation (as in canvas). Saying it shou
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aplzrtve
14y ago
Why differentiate plugins? What makes a VM with JIT not a plugin save the browser vendor shipping it with the browser? Why wouldn't other browsers have Pepper? Compilers are as good as what they've been tuned for. In my view PNaCl's shortco
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aplzrtve
14y ago
These are shallow arguments: * pepper is "inspired" by nsapi, clarify your point. * PNaCl performance lagging isn't a solid argument, you know it'll get better, the solution might even be to cut LLVM out save for bitcode. * "nobody doe