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Re:Show HN: Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform We... by seabrookmx on Thursday August 02, 2018 @07:13PM (#17676220)
Yeah this claim:

> is faster than all other WebAssembly implementations tested

is pretty meaningless once you realize this.

I'd be really surprised if this outperformed V8 or SpiderMonkey, but I'd love to be proved wrong.

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Re:Show HN: Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform We... by iainmerrick on Thursday August 02, 2018 @09:39PM (#17676760)
Looking at the benchmark results, it’s really not very fast. Over 3 seconds for fib(35)??
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