Re:Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web
by azakai on Thursday May 23, 2013 @12:05AM
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No, look again at the numbers - asm.js gets much closer to native speed than normal JS, in many cases, especially large apps. In addition to the numbers in the article, you can see for example,
http://kripken.github.io/mloc_emscripten_talk/#/28
asm.js code makes it easier to get within reach of native performance.