[jmillikin]

  > And the problem WASM solved really would be almost
  > better instead if we just had a ring 4 for web
  > browsers. It seems clear that X86 has won, unless
  > you think that RISC V still has a chance

Mobile has a large and growing lead over desktop[0] for web traffic, and every popular mobile device released for the past ~decade has run on ARM.

[0] https://techjury.net/blog/mobile-vs-desktop-usage/

[bb88]

Arm was only %8 of the CPU market in 2021.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/12/apple_arm_m1_intel_x8...

I'm still waiting for those arm desktops that run Windows...

[jmillikin]

I'm struggling to phrase a response that would be polite enough for HN, so instead I'll encourage you to re-read both my post and your link more carefully.

[nl]

More people use web browsers on mobile than on desktops: https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mob...

Therefore there are more browsers on ARM than there on x86.

> I'm still waiting for those arm desktops that run Windows

This seems irrelevant, but MS is shipping them now: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/project-volterra-rev...

[quux]

Hello from a desktop ARM machine that runs windows!

M1 Mac Mini running Windows 11 in parallels.