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by CyberDildonics 1165 days ago
I will quote you from a different comment:

WASM is not really an assembly language.
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maxiepoo 1164 days ago
One of the main reasons it's not really an assembly language is that it doesn't support jumps! This is fixing a defect!
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CyberDildonics 1164 days ago
This is fixing a defect!

Only according to people using niche languages that are already slower than javascript but not anyone designing, implementing and using webasm.

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maxiepoo 1163 days ago
This would allow you to do things like compile other assembly languages to webassembly.
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CyberDildonics 1162 days ago
What are you basing that on? If that were true then binaries for different CPU ISAs would also be able to be statically compiled to each other.
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maxiepoo 1154 days ago
Even emscripten, which compiles LLVM to WASM has to use a relooper algorithm to get around the lack of jumps.
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