Re:Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge
by nnethercote on Thursday May 07, 2015 @08:36PM
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But the Chrome/V8 teams is still benefiting from the existence of asm.js, because the subset of JS that people can use and expect good performance from is now well-defined. Prior to asm.js this kind of certainty wasn't available for either JS engine developers or JS authors.
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Re:Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge
by verbin217 on Thursday May 07, 2015 @11:33PM
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I'm not sure I understand the purpose of your comment. Google's optimizations can achieve asmjs-like performance outside the well-defined subset so it doesn't necessarily benefit Google. If compile-to-js language authors target the subset ubiquitously and exclusively it may actually hurt Google.