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		piperswe 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Browsercraft: Java Minecraft in the browser Minecraft back in the day was a Java applet, so the game was running in a native JVM. This demo is running the game in a WebAssembly JVM, so performance is absolutely going to suffer. If the game were actually written for the web platform, it would perform significantly better.

singularity2001 4 months ago | [–]

well Wasm had the promise of giving near native speed, but since they still don't offer direct write/share of memory it results in abysmal FPS.

kulahan 4 months ago | [–]

This is a 20-ish year old game. It really shouldn’t matter.

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