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by pjmlp 2415 days ago
WebAssembly is the consequence of Mozilla not adopting PNaCL, and its advocates usually hand wave all the multi-language bytecode formats used throughout the industry since UNCOL, as if it is the very first of its kind.
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sanxiyn 2415 days ago
WebAssembly got formal semantics with formal proof of soundness. PNaCl (and LLVM) still doesn't.
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pjmlp 2415 days ago
Politics, and yet it doesn't have bounds checking support.
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The_rationalist 2415 days ago
BTW chrome webassembly is 2 time slower than pnacl.
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