D could catch this wave: web assembly

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/18/2015 05:21 PM, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
>
> Yeah. This fallback thing does not make much sense. They say WebAssembly
> will reduce the file size by 7% after compression compared to asm.js .
> Who cares?
>
> In my experience performance issues usually are in the layout/render
> engine, or something related to it.
>

The layout/render stuff has to support so much dynamic-DOM cruft on 
every...single...element...of the page, it's pretty much inevitable that 
the browser itself is where the bottleneck is on a normal page, rather 
than network. (Which is really weird if you look at it from the 
perspective of someone who remembers dial-up.)