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Re:Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium by StavrosK on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @06:13AM (#19623261)
Oh sorry, I thought you were comparing it to other alternatives, I didn't realize you meant WASM is worse than not running code at all. Yes, I agree.
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Re:Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium by black_puppydog on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @06:37AM (#19623378)
Yeah. Like... Markup languages meant to describe things, then leave rendering to the client. It's gonna be fun once our adblockers become useless because the "Web" apps are essentially blobs that do all the presentation for us. Oh and good luck making that barrier free
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Re:Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium by afiori on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:23AM (#19623891)
most adblockers work by blocking network requests to ad domains, there is nothing wasm can do here. Regarding a canvas site the difference is purely in performance.
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