Asm.js in Firefox Nightly

Re:Asm.js in Firefox Nightly by rayiner on Thursday March 21, 2013 @11:15PM (#5421181)

> Only as anyone mining the web for esoteric code will attest, anything written in standard C since probably the mid 80s and using only the ANSI C standard library can still be fed to a compiler today and produce perfectly functioning code, taking advantage of every advancement in compiler technology in the 30 years that have followed.

Have you ever actually tried this? It doesn't work.

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Re:Asm.js in Firefox Nightly by tptacek on Friday March 22, 2013 @02:05AM (#5421612)

I have. When I started at Arbor Networks in the early 00's, we needed a fine-grained timer library that was millisecond-granular and could efficiently manage thousands of scheduled events. I stole mine from the MIT-licensed Athena codebase, which dates back to the '80s.

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Re:Asm.js in Firefox Nightly by rayiner on Friday March 22, 2013 @10:39AM (#5423159)

But was it generated code? I've had pretty bad luck with old scheme/lisp implementations that compile to C.

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