Hacker News Reader

I think this is pretty neat demonstration of the maturity of Emscripten. This reveals a lot of interesting avenues one could take with legacy software in the browser to me that I hadn't thought about before. Many kudos to the creators of this project who took the time and energy to show the rest of us what's possible with a little creativity. Keep on hackin'!

View on HN

Thanks! It will be interesting to see how much it will speed up as JS runtimes get faster, and as we are able to apply additional optimizations with Emscripten.

In particular, asm.js is explicitly disabled right now because of the need for memory growth. In the meantime, I'm planning on having a build with it enabled just to benchmark times on smaller files (where the growth is not needed).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com