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Comment by mort96

6 months ago

I don't think speed is fine. Here's a write-up from Mozilla which talks about the performance benefits of WASM compared to asm.js: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/03/why-webassembly-is-faster-...

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flohofwoe  6 months ago

FWIW, switching from asm.js to wasm in was hardly noticeable performance-wise for my code (at least in browsers that already had a special 'fast-path' for asm.js).

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