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Re:Web Assembly by cpeterso on Monday November 09, 2015 @10:37PM (#10537474)
How long until someone implements WebAssembly instructions in hardware? ARM's "Jazelle" supported some JVM instructions in hardware.
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Re:Web Assembly by h1282227 on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:12AM (#10538116)
Hardware support only makes sense if the optimisations are already included in the compiler output. The JVM does all the optimisations which makes Java Bytecode not suitable for that purpose.
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