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A comment on Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler. Parent comment

Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by DiThi on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:04PM (#16172449)
You tell Edge, "compile this", Edge replies "done!" when what it has done is just verifying it's valid WASM. When you then call a function, it's compiled.
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Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by qznc on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:11PM (#16172514)
So it is actually sad. It means you just downloaded a lot of stuff and only used a fraction of it.
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