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native_samples on April 19, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: WebAssembly 2.0 First Working Draft

Isn't SIMD new in this release of the spec? How can WASM crush JS using SIMD if they only just added support?

titzer on April 19, 2022 [–]

It's been implemented in browsers for longer than the spec has been out. In fact, one condition of a proposal being merged into the spec is that two production engines must have implemented it.

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