On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:07:51 +0100 (CET) "Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)" <char...@scenergy.dfmk.hu> wrote:
>[...] > Also, WebAssembly is a descendant of asm.js, Maybe historically. Technically asm.js is higher lvl than webassembly. > which was basically striped > down Javascript with some integer/pointer type tagging. As far as I know, > the main problem with JS from a computing point of view, that it handles > all numbers as floats for "simplicity", but with some code in other > languages, this can have real side effects (for example some integers > cannot be exactly expressed as floats, JS uses Double, which can express integers correctly from -$10000000000000 to $fffffffffffff. That should be enough for most browser programs, don't you think? >[...] > So all in all, despite its [webassembly] problems, it's still the best effort > to provide > some sane bytecode standard for the web. (If a web bytecode can be > anywhere near sane, that is.) +1 Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal