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Re:A first look at WebAssembly performance by benjismith on Thursday February 09, 2017 @04:16AM (#13605647)
Well remember, WebAssembly just a different representation format for the same instruction set, executed by the underlying virtual machine (v8, spidermonkey, etc). So you should expect to see much of a performance difference.

The main benefit of WebAssembly is so that we can write code using our favorite languages (not just javascript!) and compile to a common binary format the browser understands. The objectives of WebAssembly never had anything to do with performance.

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Re:A first look at WebAssembly performance by vbezhenar on Thursday February 09, 2017 @08:43AM (#13606804)
> The main benefit of WebAssembly is so that we can write code using our favorite languages

JavaScript is already common format that browser understands and there are implementations for a lot of languages translating them to JavaScript. So WebAssembly definitely is about performance, because using other languages is already solved problem.

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Re:A first look at WebAssembly performance by pmontra on Thursday February 09, 2017 @04:47AM (#13605753)
Are there DOM bindings for languages other than JavaScript or is WebAssembly only for backend/webservices?
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Re:A first look at WebAssembly performance by Matthias247 on Thursday February 09, 2017 @06:01AM (#13606054)
As far as I understand you can call JS APIs from WebAssembly, which means you use the already available DOM APIs. I don't know exactly what the calling convention from WASM to JS looks like, but I guess it's specified somewhere.
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Re:A first look at WebAssembly performance by TheCycoONE on Thursday February 09, 2017 @07:10AM (#13606356)
There are a few, none of them optimal for DOM manipulation yet because they all involve calling javascript. There is plans to add wasm dom hooks eventually. https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/porting/conne...
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Re:A first look at WebAssembly performance by AgentME on Thursday February 09, 2017 @04:35PM (#13611219)
WebAssembly is tied to asm.js, which is about performance.
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