Is webassembly a meme?
Is webassembly a meme?
Julian Adams
Charles Flores
I hope not, but I'm concerned about some of the technical aspects.
Alexander Scott
elaborate
Owen Myers
Nevermind I suck cocks, I just read some more. I was under the impression it compiled natively.
I hope it takes off so that retards who think HTML5/CSS/JS is software development get BTFO of the industry.
Juan Harris
>I was under the impression it compiled natively.
It does.
You know what else compiles natively? Fucking JavaScript. It needs all the help it can get, so the browser vendors have been in an arms race for years to speed up JS execution speeds, and as part of that, they created JIT compilers that turn JS methods into native machine code.
But it's still slow and it sucks, because it's fucking JavaScript. So the browser vendors brainstormed all the ways they wished they could change JS to make it easier to compile, and that wishlist is what WASM is. It still gets JIT compiled by the browser. It just doesn't get saved to a file on your hard drive somewhere.
Josiah Sanders
Where does it get compiled? Your ram?
Michael Ward
Yes.
With C, the compiler generates machine code in RAM and then copies it into a file, and then when you run the program, the OS copies it back into RAM and executes it from RAM.
A JIT compiler doesn't bother with the file part. It just runs it directly.
Austin Gonzalez
It's JIT, therefore RAM.Much like LuaJIT.
Nolan Walker
Hows this different then v8 engine compiling Javascript into c++ to machine? Yes web assembly is complete hype
Samuel Williams
WA VM has very limited instructions and types so it can be aggressively run.