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Comment by frik

Google does it right with optimizing v8 for general Javascript usage. Mozilla especially optimizes for Asm.js, they detect asm.js code route that code not to their general purpose Javascript engine but to a seperate JIT written for asm.js. Bad idea, as we will find out.

In future we will have than binary asm blobs that run web apps faster and outperform any normal JavaScript. Then we will have to compile JavaScript to WebAssembly to get the extra performance boost, right? Stupid! It seems this technology is very bad for the whole web eco system.

How about investing more time in advancing HTML5? Little has been done since 2012.

parent frik 10 years ago

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