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Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won by cbhl on Thursday June 01, 2017 @06:14PM (#14465382)
> The elephant in the room is download size. A wasm photoshop, even if it works and performs well, is still a multi-gigabyte "web page". The browser is in no way set up to handle that.

So you split it into chunks and download the bits you need as you go.

Microsoft has already figured out how to do this -- you can run Office (the real, full Windows version) basically streaming from the Internet already.

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Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won by philsnow on Thursday June 01, 2017 @08:52PM (#14466537)
> So you split it into chunks and download the bits you need as you go.

at last, the renaissance of the microcomputer programmers (like the COBOL renaissance of the mainframe programmers)! that kind of technique was common back in the 80s to get things done

http://www.filfre.net/2017/04/the-640-k-barrier/

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Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won by Endy on Friday June 02, 2017 @01:55AM (#14467785)
That's funny - I stopped using Microsoft Office because of that very thing. I have Office '07 still for some minor graphical compatibility reasons, but generally speaking I use the bundled, free, offline, WordPad/NotePad, LibreOffice, and/or AbiWord.
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