Brendan Eich • 6/17/2015

From ASM.JS to WebAssembly

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This article announces the cross-browser development of WebAssembly (wasm), a new binary intermediate representation for the web. Initially designed to be equivalent to asm.js for easy polyfilling, it aims to solve performance issues like parser overhead and enable future divergence from JavaScript semantics to better serve as a common compilation target for multiple programming languages.

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