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Re:Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL by RussianCow on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:46PM (#7423040)
The choice wasn't so simple when asm.js was only supported by Firefox, and Microsoft had no plans to support WebGL in IE. :)
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Re:Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @01:08PM (#7423244)
asm.js is supported, inherently, by all modern browsers. It is just JavaScript, after all. However, only Firefox has a second compiler path especially for it. Chrome has some optimisations for asm.js-like code in V8.
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Re:Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL by RussianCow on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @01:36PM (#7423496)
Well, yes, but I find the WebGL port of the Unreal Engine demo (for example) unplayable without asm.js-specific optimizations. So by "supported" I really mean "optimized".
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Re:Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL by camus2 on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @05:34PM (#7425152)
a subset of a language is not the language itself. asm.js is not javascript.
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