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Re:A first look at WebAssembly performance by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 09, 2017 @07:52AM (#13606528)
> Edit: Additionally, browsers will finally consume less power, CPU time and memory, because the execution runtime process will be so streamlined.

Don't worry, the software industry (and adtech) will find new cool ways to bloat the websites so that their resource usage will be back to usual high, while offered features stay more-less the same. That's pretty much how desktop, mobile and web all have been evolving so far.

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Re:A first look at WebAssembly performance by majewsky on Thursday February 09, 2017 @08:25AM (#13606705)
This can also be seen the other way around. Given the speed at which websites pile on unnecessary shit, just imagine how websites would perform if browser vendors weren't busy optimizing all day long.
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Re:A first look at WebAssembly performance by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 09, 2017 @08:46AM (#13606825)
That only matters if browser vendors stay ahead of the bloat curve (which I'm not so sure). Otherwise, one could say that for given performance point of the system (hardware platform + browser), there's a set level of bloat software sticks at, making the perceived performance constant.
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