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colanderman on July 27, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flas...

JavaScript already has multithreading (Web Workers), and Flash never had SIMD support. (At least, a Google search of the latter turns up nothing.)

steveklabnik on July 27, 2018 [–]

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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