Major Browsers Add Experimental Support For WebAssembly (thestack.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Four major web browsers have announced support for the near-native compiling technology WebAssembly, and collaborated to bring an initial common game demo of Angry Bots, running via Unity and WebAssembly, to experimental builds of Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and, shortly, Safari. WebAssembly was launched last year in a joint project between Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple and Google as a potentially more efficient route to assembly-level performance than asm.js, which is in itself a low-level subset of JavaScript.

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assembly-level performance from Javascript

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

>> assembly-level performance (from Javascript)

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

We got rid of flash and applets

[Anonymous Coward]

Now this?????

Re:What is webassembly? Never heard of it before..

[zlives]

don't worry, it will never be used for DRM or adware

Re:What is webassembly? Never heard of it before..

[wonkey_monkey]

a huge ass plugin

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