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Re:Simple diet tricks for asm.js by jakub_h on Saturday August 27, 2016 @03:15PM (#12373716)
I sort of think about it the other way round, actually.
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Re:Simple diet tricks for asm.js by hackcasual on Saturday August 27, 2016 @03:40PM (#12373829)
Not sure what you mean? Asm.js was defined a couple of years before Web assembly
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Re:Simple diet tricks for asm.js by jakub_h on Sunday August 28, 2016 @08:42PM (#12379294)
Yes, but it was defined after actual assembly/low level languages like BLISS. So it was defined as a way of doing something "assembly-like" (or BLISS-like, or BCPL-like) in an environment that didn't allow for such code.
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