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		the8472 on June 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: From Asm.js to WebAssembly also important in my eyes: shared memory threading: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/PostMVP.md... Threads themselves may be "ugly", but to build all the pretty abstractions you need them as foundation.

BrendanEich on June 17, 2015 [–]

Yet also coming to JS, see https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2015/02/26/the-path-to-p.... Not a reason per-se to do wasm, at least in short term. Longer term, great to do full pthread things in wasm and not pollute JS.

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