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by igouy 2657 days ago
That paper does not report "WebAssembly is running at 67% of native speed in Firefox and 53% of native speed in Chrome".

That paper reports — "… applications compiled to WebAssembly run slower by an average of 50% (Firefox) to 89% (Chrome), with peak slowdowns of 2.6× (Firefox) and 3.14× Chrome)."

When you write "53% of native speed" that's really confusing!
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stromgo 2656 days ago
Sorry, I reformulated the findings for easy consumption. Why is it confusing and not an improvement? Ask 10 people what speed is 89% slower than 100 mph. See how many give the article's intended answer (53 mph).
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igouy 2656 days ago
> Ask 10 people what speed…

Have you done that?

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