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stewbrew on Nov 27, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust: Enable WebAssembly backend by default

Yes, but a byte code interpreter ported to wasm via emscripten != a compiler with a WASM backend.

k__ on Nov 27, 2017 [–]

Isn't the stuff that comes out of the OCaml compiler byte code?

As far as I can tell, OCaml has a GC and WASM (at the moment) doesn't so this seems like the only viable solution to me.

colanderman on Nov 27, 2017 | [–]

OCaml also has a native x86 backend, which produces quite efficient code.

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