Asm.js
Asm.js is an intermediate representation language created in 2013. asm.js is an intermediate programming language designed to allow computer software written in languages such as C to be run as web applications while maintaining performance characteristics considerably better than standard JavaScript, the typical language used for such applications. asm.js consists of a strict subset of JavaScript, into which code written in statically-typed languages with manual memory management (such as C) is translated by a source-to-source compiler such as Emscripten (based on LLVM). Performance is improved by limiting language features to those amenable to ahead-of-time optimization and other performance improvements. Read more on Wikipedia...
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- Asm.js ranks in the top 10% of languages
- the Asm.js website
- the Asm.js wikipedia page
- Asm.js first appeared in 2013
- See also: javascript, llvmir, lua, perl, python, ruby, opengl, vim-editor, sqlite, gnuplot, unity-engine, godot-game-engine, wasm
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Example code from Wikipedia:
function strlen(ptr) {
ptr = ptr|0;
var curr = 0;
curr = ptr;
while (MEM8[curr]|0 != 0) {
curr = (curr + 1)|0;
}
return (curr - ptr)|0;
}
Last updated February 18th, 2020