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steveklabnik
on July 26, 2018
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Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flas...
Today, there's no difference. In the future, there may be: threading and SIMD are two examples.
colanderman
on July 27, 2018
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JavaScript already has multithreading (Web Workers), and Flash never had SIMD support. (At least, a Google search of the latter turns up nothing.)
steveklabnik
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I was making the comparison between wasm and JS. Web workers is a browser platform feature, not a JavaScript feature. Not all JS runs in a browser.
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