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		est31 on Jan 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Nativ... In the old days there were websites using flash or silverlight and they had a screen "in order to use this you must use flash" and for some reason, people did download and install flash so that they could watch the cat videos or whatever.

pjmlp on Jan 29, 2019 [–]

The big difference is that without them they would see a broken square, with Chrome or Safari they would still see it, just a bit slower.

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