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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by otakucode on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:36PM (#15314594)
My first thought reading the specification was '6 months before there's silicon that runs the bytecode directly.'
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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by Ajedi32 on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:18PM (#15314950)
Obligatory "The Birth & Death of JavaScript" reference: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

METAL is coming.

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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by weinzierl on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:58PM (#15315266)
No really. WASM is based on a stack machine and not a register machine. On the other hand there was PicoJava [1] and there is Jazelle [2]. So, maybe...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle

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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by pjmlp on Saturday September 23, 2017 @03:42AM (#15318685)
Stack machines used to be common in mainframe hardware, back in the day.

http://www.retrocomputingtasmania.com/home/projects/burrough...

http://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Rational/R1000s400

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