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Re:Lichess Analysis Board with Stockfish 8 in Asm.js by boarquantile on Monday June 12, 2017 @07:10AM (#14536333)
Lichess tries to use (in this order): PNaCl, WASM, asm.js.

PNaCl required almost no modifications to Stockfish (https://github.com/niklasf/stockfish.pexe), supports multithreading and is still the fastest.

WASM and asm.js require the same patches (https://github.com/niklasf/stockfish.js). Most notably WASM does not yet have multi-threading. In the original Stockfish one dedicated thread is listening for new commands. Instead now the main search thread (since it's the only thread) has to check for new commands from time to time, which costs a bit of performance.

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