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ootachi on Aug 12, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Next-Gen Web Apps: Google unleashes Native Client ...

You assume wrong. Modern tracing or type-inferring JITs are heavily optimized for the kinds of tight loops you see in image processing.

cageface on Aug 12, 2011 [–]

All the heavy lifting in apps like that is done in SIMD.

ootachi on Aug 13, 2011 | [–]

Which doesn't require NaCl. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644389

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