On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 17:05:41 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
Statement do not makes arguements. pNaCl is portable, take only a 20% hit compared to pure native and is compact to send through the wire.
You think pnacl is compact and compresses well? That's an unusual position. Both asm.js and pnacl fail to be ideal for various reasons. One is that you loose too much information if you go from a high level language to enable full target optimization. The "p" for portable is questionable.
A BIG advantage with asm.js is that you can generate and compile it from code running in the browser, so you can choose your own transport format, run JITs in the browser etc. You could essentially create a (simple) D development environment in the browser.
Anyway, what we think does not matter. What matters is what is supported by the least common denominator, which for many developers happen to be browsers on weak mobile ARM devices. Apple has no interest in undermining their Apps market, so… who knows where this will go. Let's hope they don't sabotage it.
