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Last June, we towards implementing – a new, portable, size and load-time-efficient binary format suitable for compiling to the web. WebAssembly is a continuation of our previous efforts to to bring a fast and safe compile target to the web. You can learn more about WebAssembly at the .
Since then, we have been collaborating closely with Firefox, Chrome, WebKit and the community to keep the moving forward in the. Today, we are excited to showcase an early preview of experimental WebAssembly support in an internal Microsoft Edge build with the demo, alongside similar previews for and. Below is a video of the demo running in Microsoft Edge using the preliminary WebAssembly support in the Chakra engine.
Despite being an early implementation, the demo starts-up significantly faster than just using asm.js as the WebAssembly binaries have a smaller file size and parse more quickly than plain JavaScript that needs to be parsed in the asm.js case.
With , we have been developing our WebAssembly implementation entirely in the open in the of our on GitHub. Under the hood, our implementation is able to reuse much of the existing asm.js infrastructure. The WebAssembly code goes through the same pipeline as the asm.js code would, after it has been parsed.
We are excited about WebAssembly’s progress across browsers and will continue to partner with Firefox, Chrome, WebKit and the community to advance the design and bring the power of WebAssembly to the web and future Microsoft Edge releases. You can follow WebAssembly and ChakraCore’s as we make progress on this technology.
― , Program Manager, Chakra
Since then, we have been collaborating closely with Firefox, Chrome, WebKit and the community to keep the moving forward in the. Today, we are excited to showcase an early preview of experimental WebAssembly support in an internal Microsoft Edge build with the demo, alongside similar previews for and. Below is a video of the demo running in Microsoft Edge using the preliminary WebAssembly support in the Chakra engine.
Despite being an early implementation, the demo starts-up significantly faster than just using asm.js as the WebAssembly binaries have a smaller file size and parse more quickly than plain JavaScript that needs to be parsed in the asm.js case.
With , we have been developing our WebAssembly implementation entirely in the open in the of our on GitHub. Under the hood, our implementation is able to reuse much of the existing asm.js infrastructure. The WebAssembly code goes through the same pipeline as the asm.js code would, after it has been parsed.
We are excited about WebAssembly’s progress across browsers and will continue to partner with Firefox, Chrome, WebKit and the community to advance the design and bring the power of WebAssembly to the web and future Microsoft Edge releases. You can follow WebAssembly and ChakraCore’s as we make progress on this technology.
― , Program Manager, Chakra