Thanks for your reply Alon. Looking to try out wasm soon :)

On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 3:14:08 AM UTC+8, Alon Zakai wrote:
>
> Still too early. The spec isn't final and browsers don't support it yet. 
> Hopefully over the next few months, though.
>
> Emscripten+Binaryen support for emitting wasm was done early, so that we 
> know it's all ready for when browsers are. Also to help test browsers by 
> emitting content for them to try on.
>
> Performance, however, will not change much. asm.js in most browsers today 
> is already running close to native speed, minus some sandboxing, so we 
> can't expect a big change there. However, some things will help, like 
> hardware min/max, load/store with offset. But I would guess less than 5% 
> speedup in throughput. (On the other hand, asm.js will get SIMD and threads 
> before wasm, so there will be a period where it is faster.)
>
> Code size should be noticeably smaller. At least 33%. And startup should 
> be far faster as well due to avoiding parsing JS and going straight from 
> binary to codegen (10x or more for the parse stage).
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 7:10 AM, awt <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I understand that Emscripten can now emit WebAssembly thru Binaryen but 
>> is the generated WebAssembly supported on Chrome or Firefox?
>>
>> Do we also have any benchmarks on the performance as well as code size? 
>> Thanks.
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