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		callahad on Sept 25, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wasmjit: Kernel Mode WebAssembly Runtime for Linux While asm.js was basically just a textual encoding of C in JavaScript... round and round we go! :)

gtremper on Sept 25, 2018 [–]

I'd say it more a textual encoding of LLVM IR. Which makes the s-expression text format of WebAssembly a text encoding of a binary encoding of a javascript encoding of a compiler intermediate representation of your program. Round and round indeed.

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