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#76 WebAssembly (Wasm) "The Web Finds a Way" with Vivek Sekhar

Happy Path Programming

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How WebAssembly Was Shoehorned Into the JavaScript World

WebAssembly was created to standardize the bytecode opcodes that were going to be supported by this probably at the point theoretical WASM machine. In platforms like Android and Chrome and V8, we actually can lower those instructions directly to machine code instructions. It's a little bit trickier on iOS because they don't allow kind of code pages to be jitted. That's the idea of kind of like, it basically is as close as possible to a machine instruction without being tied to a particular machine vendor.

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