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Re:Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops by devwastaken on Saturday October 02, 2021 @04:10PM (#28731631)
It won't, and shouldn't. Wasm meets very few of it's goals, and is nowhere near any native speeds under real world workloads. Even speedups with SIMD ar hindered, and the entire design and implementation of it in the clang/llvm compiler is very experimental.

Go work with wasm in the browser, you will pull your hair out at the fact emscripten is still the most used tool. It's all very hackey and if something breaks, you wont fix it.

Re:Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops by Avi-D-coder on Sunday October 03, 2021 @05:02PM (#28740484)
I have worked with wasm in the browser in production. Yes, there are many issues, yes I have some critiques of the multithreading proposal, but in the long run portable workers solve lock-in.