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  • alfaaz

    The fastest multilingual word counter that can count millions of words per second.

  • spec

    WebAssembly specification, reference interpreter, and test suite. (by WebAssembly)

  • Still strikes me as super sad JS never got SIMD support. It seemed like there were some strong candidate specs. On Node there are some add-on npm libraries that implement.

    My understanding was the main protest was that we would get wasm & some certain implementers said they wanted to focus their energy on wasm.

    That was well over half a decade ago & wasm is still in incredible infancy, with basically only statically linked capabilities in the spec.

    Wasm SIMD proposal itself only merged into wasm in November 2021. https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/pull/1391

    It seems really unfortunate to have decided to keep JS the slow inferior language.

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