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> Or in other words: javascript is an interpreted script language, webassembly is a compiled binary format.

They're both just-in-time compiled. It doesn't matter if your program comes in as source code or a binary format if you're compiling it dynamically.

But I didn't know that WebAssembly ran under asm.js semantics. I guess that's the difference.



WebAssembly has its own semantics, similar to asm.js (statically typed) but much cleaner because it doesn't need to map onto JavaScript.




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