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by hajile 1104 days ago
The second you remove threading and SIMD from those examples, they get rather close to JS. At most, you are making the argument that killing JS-SIMD for WASM and not adding native threading support was a mistake.
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> The second you remove threading and SIMD

Anything else?

AsmJS coercion hints still work, so not really. Monomorphic code and some optimization can take you a surprisingly long way toward good performance. You certainly won’t find that in most untyped languages.