InNative: Run WebAssembly Outside the Sandbox at 95% Native Speed

Post by pjmlp » Wed, May 29, 2019, 8:16 AM UTC

zaarn wrote: post #89

pjmlp wrote: post #86

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Usually being hyped by people that apparently don't know the history of bytecode formats since the early 60's.

I'm well aware of the history of bytecode formats, Java was pretty successful for a while, even managed to get in the Browser and only failed there due to a lack of a DOM Interaction story and similar integration problems. There is already plenty of companies that deployed WASM on their stack (like Ebay, they use Wasm for their barcode scanner), it's not going away any time soon.

Post by WAHa_06x36 » Wed, May 29, 2019, 8:45 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #87

WAHa_06x36 wrote: post #61

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LLVM IR is not architecture-independent. It encodes architecture and ABI assumptions, and is not portable. Also, this is not "JITed bytecode", it is compiled AOT.

The PNaCL and Apple's variants are architecture independent.

Post by Arbalest » Fri, May 31, 2019, 2:41 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #88

Arbalest wrote: post #43

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Oracle could have easily done as Google has done with Android, and make sure that the client end wouldn't run without some kind of proprietary extension[a]. They are the world leaders in deploying the Ask toolbar, and with that comes the end users. It is only because we aren't using Java that we don't see this happening. a] Yes you can make android apps run on AOSP, but as many comment with regards to Huawei losing t…

I never had Ask Toolbar on my computer, why would you ask? 1 - I always read what I get proposed to install and disable what I don't care about. 2 - The JDK didn't had such "feature", only the consumer JRE