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by rswier 3932 days ago
Yea, even if you increase the chunk size and omit dynamic recompilation, there still may be unavoidable slowdowns due to shoving all that Javascript through the browser.

I am currently designing a software-only CPU with sliding register window (128 entries) and dirt simple instruction set. The for/switch/loop emulator for it should be quite a bit faster than any emulated silicon CPU.