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		kg on Oct 16, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “The 'use asm' pragma is not necessary to opt into... New features like SIMD and 64-bit integers would not be asm.js features, they would be JavaScript features. If you read his comments more carefully you would realize this, since he mentions how they're being developed as JavaScript features... Again, asm.js has 'changed' but has not broken backwards compatibility, because it's just javascript and remains so.

DannyBee on Oct 16, 2013 | [–]

This is a word game. You can't define away the problem of backwards compatibility by saying "well it wasn't us who changed in a backwards incompatible way, it was the underlying language we subset".

You especially can't do this when the parent made the claim that PNaCL has exactly this issue.

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