Re:Asm.js in Firefox Nightly
by coldtea on Friday March 22, 2013 @04:40AM
(#5421913)
>I'm not sure why you think asm.js isn't a blob
Because it isn't? It's a perfectly normal set of semantics in a language form on top of regular JS.
>in order to achieve those performance levels that you see in Mozilla, you have to interpret JavaScript as something that is not JavaScript, which requires having a spec in hand, dealing with potentially ambiguous encodings, and interpreting the asm.js as a bytecode, rather than as standard JavaScript.
All of them observations that are BESIDE the point if asm.js is a blob or not.
Because it isn't? It's a perfectly normal set of semantics in a language form on top of regular JS.
>in order to achieve those performance levels that you see in Mozilla, you have to interpret JavaScript as something that is not JavaScript, which requires having a spec in hand, dealing with potentially ambiguous encodings, and interpreting the asm.js as a bytecode, rather than as standard JavaScript.
All of them observations that are BESIDE the point if asm.js is a blob or not.