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Re:From Asm.js to WebAssembly by hacst on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @06:48PM (#9735780)
Optimizing compilers.
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Re:From Asm.js to WebAssembly by BrendanEich on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @07:14PM (#9735871)
Sometimes you must build with -g. WebDWARF ;-).
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Re:From Asm.js to WebAssembly by bsimpson on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @09:22PM (#9736238)
Can you please clarify? I've seen WebDWARF mentioned twice now, but when I Google, I get a bunch of results about a shareware clone of Dreamweaver.
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Re:From Asm.js to WebAssembly by filereaper on Thursday June 18, 2015 @12:39AM (#9736866)
DWARF is a debugging data format for ELF files.[1]

WebDWARF then would be to WebASM, as DWARF is to ELF files.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWARF

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Re:From Asm.js to WebAssembly by bsimpson on Thursday June 18, 2015 @02:01AM (#9737062)
Thank you!
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Re:From Asm.js to WebAssembly by BrendanEich on Thursday June 18, 2015 @12:59PM (#9739984)
I'm suggesting that when debugging optimized code, you'll use -g as on native platforms. I'm speculating further that with wasm, decompilers will rise to the view source challenge.
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