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Re:Asm.js: a strict subset of js for compilers – working draft by stcredzero on Friday February 15, 2013 @06:03PM (#5229254)
> has no direct access to the DOM or external JavaScript, meaning it lacks support for some APIs (WebRTC) and cannot really be used as a drop-in replacement for JS or to take advantage of the existing HTML renderer (it's all or nothing).

Is there some fundamental reason why these won't all get solved in the future?

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Re:Asm.js: a strict subset of js for compilers – working draft by comex on Friday February 15, 2013 @07:05PM (#5229593)
The fundamental reason is that Pepper plugins live in a separate process, so latency is high - a security measure, but one that I'm arguing is unnecessary and forces highly unfortunate design choices.
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Re:Asm.js: a strict subset of js for compilers – working draft by stcredzero on Friday February 15, 2013 @07:33PM (#5229723)
I don't really see this as a fundamental, iron clad barrier to everything you mention above.
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