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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 krapp on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @07:56PM (#16173672)
>Just wait until the JVM and Flash Runtime are ported to wasm. Downloaded and compiled on every page load :).

Why that, instead of caching common components like any other web asset, or even having the browser act as a dependency manager?

There are bound to better solutions than "download and compile on every page load."

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Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by adrianN on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:20AM (#16175116)
Users could for example install plugins into their browser.
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