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0 pointsnotriddle6y ago0 comments

It's faster. That's literally it. There aren't any new I/O facilities.

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A few examples of things it adds that are not widely available in JS (if at all, or requiring awkward hacks/hints in JS), off the top of my head:

int64

uint32

popcnt

copysign

reinterpret_cast equivalent (the js hack for this is abysmal)

pthreads

SIMD

AOT compilation

To be fair, it's been a while since I was last one of the authors of the webassembly spec, so I could be missing some things.

Could ads be served with web assembly?

Yes, though I don't know if it makes sense to do it for any reason other than hiding from ad blockers.

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