Why WebAssembly is faster than asm.js

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Jason and Gro
Thu 16 Mar 2017 15:42
WebAssembly is in Firefox 52 (which just shipped last week, in case you missed it), and brings near-native performance to web applications.



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Why WebAssembly is Faster Than asm.js

We talk a lot about how fast WebAssembly is, but how does it stand up next to asm.js?

WebAssembly, a new binary execution format for the Web, is starting to arrive in stable versions of browsers. A major goal of WebAssembly is to be fast. Here, we go into some technical details about how it achieves that speed.


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