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Re:IE11 to support WebGL by nailer on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @03:49AM (#5944701)
ASM is only 2x slower than native (it was 10x prior to) and will be 1.5 soon. With a way better distribution model. Have you seen UE3 or UE4 demos?
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Re:IE11 to support WebGL by anon1385 on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @08:31AM (#5945569)
>ASM is only 2x slower than native

Only in wilfully misleading benchmarks. Allow use of SIMD and multithreading and asm.js can be as much as 50 times slower:

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/native...

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/classi...

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Re:IE11 to support WebGL by nailer on Thursday June 27, 2013 @06:58AM (#5951621)
Good point: re multithreading. I wonder if web workers could be used to resolve that?
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