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		singularity2001 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WASM 2.0 premature optimization is the root of all evil and this SIMD mess could have been implemented so much more elegantly if they just followed the general variable size wasm flexible vector proposal https://github.com/WebAssembly/flexible-vectors

subarctic 9 months ago [–]

What happened there? Looks like it was created 10 years ago (is wasm even that old?) And has barely been updated in the last year

pests 9 months ago | [–]

Announced 2015 and before that we were experimenting in asm.js

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