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		gmac on July 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LLVM Intermediate Representation is better than as... Replacing JS may not be technically difficult, but practically it's extremely difficult (IE6, anyone?). Plus JS has got so fast, it's becoming hard to see the point anyway.

pbsdp on July 24, 2013 [–]

> Plus JS has got so fast, it's becoming hard to see the point anyway.

Native is faster. A lot faster. And that's what browser apps are competing against.

klibertp on July 24, 2013 | [–]

asm.js ? It's essentially almost typed intermediary language which can be directly/easily translated to CPU instructions.

rational_indian on July 25, 2013 | | [–]

Not fast enough apparently: https://developers.google.com/native-client/

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