Re:From Asm.js to WebAssembly
by jamii on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @07:15PM
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If I'm reading this correctly, they are not planning to add a JIT but just the features required for implementing your own:
From https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...
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Re:From Asm.js to WebAssembly
by BrendanEich on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @08:02PM
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Right, because wasm is for AOT (ahead of time) languages first. To support dynamic languages that don't map to JS well, the future extensions including JITting wasm will be needed.