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Re:Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge by TazeTSchnitzel on Thursday May 07, 2015 @06:00PM (#9508625)
People wanting high performance. For example, Grant Galitz's IodineGBA had some portions in asm.js https://github.com/taisel/IodineGBA
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Re:Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge by Sephr on Friday May 08, 2015 @02:53AM (#9510329)
No, it doesn't. Where in IodineGBA do you see any hand-written asm.js code?

Here's are some quotes from the author of that very library:

"asm.js requires a style of coding only compilers can output. A person writing actual asm.js code by hand would need to be insane as asm.js code required style of coding is horribly disorganized"[1]

"Unfortunately asm.js requires one giant array to put things on. No one in their right mind codes like that by hand."[2]

1: https://github.com/taisel/IodineGBA/issues/16#issuecomment-2... 2: https://github.com/taisel/IodineGBA/issues/16#issuecomment-2...

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Re:Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday May 08, 2015 @03:24PM (#9513642)
That's from 2013. There have been more recent discussions.
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