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Re:Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge by nothrabannosir on Thursday May 07, 2015 @03:34PM (#9507680)
I see, you were not talking about errors, but about predictability of performance. I see it now in your comment, too. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

And I didn't know it was just derived from it; I thought asm.js was idempotent with llvm ir!

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Re:Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge by pcwalton on Thursday May 07, 2015 @03:53PM (#9507813)
> And I didn't know it was just derived from it; I thought asm.js was idempotent with llvm ir!

LLVM IR is SSA and strongly typed, while asm.js is non-SSA and only has a simple, machine-level type system, just to name two large differences.

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