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Re:Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web by bad_user on Thursday May 23, 2013 @03:35AM (#5755720)
> why would anyone write in a crippled C-like subset of javascript

Because asm.js is not meant for people, but for compilers.

For example the Unreal Engine has been recently compiled from C/C++ to asm.js and is running in the browser: http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/

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Re:Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web by camus on Thursday May 23, 2013 @09:32AM (#5756709)
... best viewed in ... netscape ?
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Re:Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web by cristiantincu on Thursday May 23, 2013 @01:54PM (#5758286)
“Best viewed in Netscape” still wins over “Download for Windows (x86)”.
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