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Re:Web Assembly on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:12AM (#10538116)
Hardware support only makes sense if the optimisations are already included in the compiler output. The JVM does all the optimisations which makes Java Bytecode not suitable for that purpose.
Re:Web Assembly on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:00AM (#10538086)
The reason for that is very simple. asm.js has no access to the DOM. You have no choice other than to use WebGL. Guess what problem web assembly is trying to solve?
Re:Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard? on Monday October 19, 2015 @04:12AM (#10411727)
In other words.

Real scissors are toys but plastic scissors are not toys since you can't hurt yourself with them.