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Re:Assembling WebAssembly by zurn on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @12:22AM (#14503741)
Very interesting looking paper, thanks.

I note that the comment in 7.3 says the biggest speedup vs asm.js is in validation, so I assume this means the measurement includes startup. This advantage is easy to concede to WebAssembly due to its design.

Re:Assembling WebAssembly by jfbastien on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @12:28AM (#14503765)
FWIW I trust that the numbers were good when the Google and Mozilla folks gathered them, but I had nothing to do with numbers!

In particular, I haven't looked into validation. JSC doesn't treat asm.js any differently than JavaScript, so the comparison would be different as well.