On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 20:50:47 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 May 2014 at 17:16:18 UTC, Etienne wrote:
I'd like to point out that asm.js is a very fast subset of the
javascript language that allows almost native speeds (3x
slowdown vs C only) which enables games to be run in the
browser without external dependencies.
You keep saying the browser, but what you mean is firefox (and
other mozilla products).
For the story, mozilla dropped out of the NaCl project so they
can pull out their me too solution. Now we are back to where we
were 10 years ago with the browser war. We could have one
unified
standard int he name of NaCl, but fuck that, now we have too.
ASM.js is inferior in every possible way (slower, bigger source,
more overhead, you name it) to NaCl except one: ASM.js run in a
standard JS interpreter. Except that if you are using this, it
is
because you need the speed in the first place. To take the
example of video game, can you claim that the game works when
you
run it at 0.5fps ?
Sadly, because of mozilla moves with ASM.js, there is no
industry standard to run native things in the browser. Until
things settle down, these are cool, but useless technologies.
That is what the desktop is for anyway.
