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		gsnedders on April 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's Going On (on "Why Python, Ruby, and Javascr... They matter, yes. But they aren't in any way specific to asm.js — it was something that was already true in generic JS.

corresation on April 18, 2013 [–]

But it is extremely specific to asm.js -- the optimizations possible can only happen because static typing is mandated. It is absolutely a subset of JS, but JS can't make those optimizations because the guarantees aren't there.

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