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by sillysaurusx 1637 days ago
There's not a whole lot of difference between minified JS and WASM anyway.
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capableweb 1636 days ago
How.. Wai... What do you mean? There is a lot of difference! That's like saying Java bytecode is the same as Java source code, not nearly the same thing! Things that can run JS can run minified JS but doesn't mean it can run WASM, and just because something can run WASM doesn't mean it can run JS.
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int_19h 1633 days ago
If something can run wasm, it can run JS by running an interpreter compiled to wasm.

Conversely, wasm can be transpiled to JS, and asm.js is also a thing.

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tluyben2 1636 days ago
Sure but a from scratch implementation in pure JS instead of a wasm compile would be cool.
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