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Google, Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla team up to create faster browsers

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by on June 18, 2015 at 6:59 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Browsers, Design & Dev, Google, Mozilla, WebAssembly

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Engineers at Google, Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla are partnering to create WebAssembly (a.k.a wasm), a bytecode for use in the browsers of the future that promises up to 20 times faster performance. WebAssembly is a project to create a new bytecode (a machine-readable instruction set that’s quicker for browsers to load than high-level languages) that’s more efficient for both desktop and mobile browsers to parse than the full source code of a Web page or app. Browsers currently use JavaScript to interpret code and enable functionality on websites such as forms and dynamic content. Improvements have been made to load…

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