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Re:Exploiting the Math.expm1 typing bug in V8 by wybiral on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @10:17PM (#18812549)
> TLDR: it's asm.js's fault.

> In order to meet our performance goals for fast asm.js validation and startup, the WebAssembly engine does not do up-front compilation of Wasm code coming from asm.js.

It sounds like the fault is how you reached your performance goals rather than asm.js itself.

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Re:Exploiting the Math.expm1 typing bug in V8 by titzer on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @10:53PM (#18812680)
> It sounds like the fault is how you reached your performance goals rather than asm.js itself.

The properties of asm.js make it inherently less efficient than Wasm.

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Re:Exploiting the Math.expm1 typing bug in V8 by magicalist on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @10:32PM (#18812611)
It's very obvious from context the reference is to the asm.js implementation in V8, I'm not sure how you could read it otherwise ("strongest plausible interpretation" and all that).
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