From Asm.js to WebAssembly

Re:From Asm.js to WebAssembly by wwweston on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @07:34PM (#9735933)

I'm apparently in the minority but I'm with the GP in that I've never been sure uglify and other minification was actually a great idea for this reason. The gains are marginal if you're using gzip compression (you are, right?); the loss of source readability is a big deal for the open nature.

Saying that the open web lives on through open/free software also seems dubious to me. Most SaaS don't have their offerings up on Github.

I wonder if we're about to discover yet again with the browser itself why the browser beat several cross-platform VMs.

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Re:From Asm.js to WebAssembly by swolchok on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @08:14PM (#9736067)

> I've never been sure uglify and other minification was actually a great idea for this reason. The gains are marginal if you're using gzip

Smaller JS parses faster. gzip doesn't affect parse time.

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Re:From Asm.js to WebAssembly by Mikushi on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @07:43PM (#9735958)

As someone who has used uglify on occasion, sometimes you pull a trick and you don't want the competition to find out too easily. Make'm sweat for it.

And on the subject of Web Assembly, if asm.js is the inspiration, great thing will come for it, really a new era for the web. For example, things like that https://github.com/audiocogs/ogg.js, and to me that's just a tiny glimpse on what the possibilities will become.

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