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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by throwaway4good on Monday September 14, 2020 @07:38AM (#24468991)
WebAssembly is an example of an IL that it is supported by many languages.

It solves a lot of problems related to distribution of software and migration between different processor architectures.

The Huawei Harmony OS is already touting its verification and how it lets a lot of user code run in the kernel process.

Add some just in time compilation and it would be quite a thing.

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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by my123 on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @07:53AM (#24491709)
Singularity and Midori existed too.

+ WebAssembly just isn't efficient for translating quite some patterns to it, at least at this point, with a quite significant perf decrease. (yes, it's better than JS in general, but that's not saying much)

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