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by jfbastien 3303 days ago
Except with all browser vendors being involved with WebAssembly, efficient polyfill-ability hasn't been a goal for a while.
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WASM has 64-bit ints, did asm.js support those? How can you polyfill that without a real slowdown.
A property with getter and setter backed by singleton typed array instance?
"without a real slowdown"

Any operation, like 64-bit adds/muls/divs/etc would have to call emulation functions. It'll be orders of magnitude slower.