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Re:WebAssembly is more than the web by conradev on Friday July 13, 2018 @09:27PM (#17528231)
I would say that JVM bytecode is significantly higher level than WebAssembly, no?
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Re:WebAssembly is more than the web by kodablah on Saturday July 14, 2018 @12:04AM (#17528757)
Not really, lot of parallels actually. But it does have higher level constructs than WASM currently has, but they are quite specific to Java the language. So I wouldn't say higher level, just more and larger scope currently.
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Re:WebAssembly is more than the web by TomMarius on Friday July 13, 2018 @09:49PM (#17528314)
Yes, and the whole browser<->plugin and plugin<->applet communication layers are missing, WASM runtime is embedded directly in V8 so the WASM code literally is ran closer to the metal.
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Re:WebAssembly is more than the web by jackpeterfletch on Saturday July 14, 2018 @07:11AM (#17529835)
WASM runs directly on V8, which runs natively.

Bytecode runs directly on the JVM which runs natively.

I'm not seeing how eithers closer to the metal.

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Re:WebAssembly is more than the web by TomMarius on Saturday July 14, 2018 @07:24AM (#17529870)
JVM yes, but when Java web apps were popular, there was a communication layer between the JVM application and the JVM support plugin, and then between the plugin and the browser.
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