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asm.js

Category

JavaScript

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 61)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Validate asm.js code and use type information to optimize the low-level subset of JavaScript.

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://asmjs.org/spec/latest/
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: In development
• Web developers: Strongly positive
• Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4203

Docs: http://asmjs.org/ https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-61#asm.js-is-now-validated-and-compiled-to-webassembly

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