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		megaman821 on Jan 1, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla’s Rejection of NativeClient Hurts the Open... I just meant the user has to compile their language of choice to the llvm byte code, as I don't see browsers hosting a bunch of interpreters for different languages.

pohl on Jan 1, 2011 [–]

Only the developer would need to do the step of compiling to llvm-bc, not each user. The browser need only host the back end JIT compilation step.

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