Engineers at Google, Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla are
partnering to create WebAssembly (a.k.a wasm), a bytecode for use in the
browsers of the future that promises up to 20 times faster performance.
WebAssembly is a project to create a new bytecode (a
machine-readable instruction set that’s quicker for browsers to load than
high-level languages) that’s more efficient for both desktop and mobile
browsers to parse than the full source code of a Web page or app.
Browsers currently use JavaScript to interpret code and
enable functionality on websites such as forms and dynamic content.
Improvements have been made to load times via asm.js, but bytecode-based
systems like .NET are faster.
Proposed as a standard that could one day be implemented in
all browsers, WebAssembly could bring app-like performance to Web content and apps.
Until WebAssembly becomes more widely available, the
coalition of developers plan to bridge the gap with a JS script that will
convert wasm to Mozilla’s widely supported asm.js for browsers that don’t
support the new format yet.
WebAssembly is still very much in its early days: neither
its specifications nor its high level design have been finalized yet. However,
with major browser developers behind the project, it should see the light of
day soon enough.
➤ The Web is getting its bytecode: WebAssembly [Ars
Technica]
Source From:- http://thenextweb.com/
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