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nothrabannosir on May 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge

I see, you were not talking about errors, but about predictability of performance. I see it now in your comment, too. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

And I didn't know it was just derived from it; I thought asm.js was idempotent with llvm ir!

pcwalton on May 7, 2015 [–]

> And I didn't know it was just derived from it; I thought asm.js was idempotent with llvm ir!

LLVM IR is SSA and strongly typed, while asm.js is non-SSA and only has a simple, machine-level type system, just to name two large differences.

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