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nonsense trends like an "assembly" language supporting jumps?
by maxiepoo 3y ago
nonsense trends like an "assembly" language supporting jumps?
- CyberDildonics 3y agoI will quote you from a different comment: WASM is not really an assembly language.
- maxiepoo 3y agoOne of the main reasons it's not really an assembly language is that it doesn't support jumps! This is fixing a defect!
- CyberDildonics 3y agoThis is fixing a defect! Only according to people using niche languages that are already slower than javascript but not anyone designing, implementing and using webasm.
- maxiepoo 3y agoThis would allow you to do things like compile other assembly languages to webassembly.
- CyberDildonics 3y agoWhat are you basing that on? If that were true then binaries for different CPU ISAs would also be able to be statically compiled to each other.
- maxiepoo 3y agoEven emscripten, which compiles LLVM to WASM has to use a relooper algorithm to get around the lack of jumps.