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		gsnedders on Feb 16, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Asm.js: a strict subset of js for compilers – work... How does PNaCl compare in terms of performance to "native" code? It still has the compilation overhead, it still has a lot of the bounds checking… It's not clear to me that PNaCl will actually be much quicker than asm.js.

skatepark on Feb 16, 2013 [–]

I believe the ideal (for users) would be to target NaCL natively, with a fallback to server-side PNaCL compilation, and an absolute fallback to PNaCL compilation/execution.

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